I have been working my way through all my set ups this year and upgrading very pretty much all my tackle, I now have 15ft, 14ft, 13ft set ups which I am happy with and all the rods/reels/lines work together well.
The set up i am stuck on is my switch rod, a nice wee vision number I picked up on the forum. I have paired it with a airflo #6 switch line and it goes out lovely. The bit I am struggling with is the reel, I originally had a guideline favo 8/10 on it which I use on my 13ft, it held the line & decent amount of backing but felt too big for the rod, so I went to another guideline reel I have which is 7/8 but it fly line didn’t fit on it let alone any backing. Getting on a bit in the season and needing to fish the set up i ended up putting an old scierra 7/9 reel I had on it, it only just fit the fly line and with limited space I ended up putting 100yards of power pro as backing, not ideal but it got my on the small local for the last couple of weeks of the season. The scierra 7/9 is physically a good size (3.75in) but I wouldn’t want to rely on that backing and even then, the whole head doesn't fit on the reel. I have to take the spool off and store it off the cage when I break the rod down.
I have been looking at reels and was wondering if anyone had experience with them from a capacity & physical size point of view. It seems I am in the realms of bigger trout reels or very light salmon.
- Vision tank 7/9 (I had the 12+ of this and loved it, but it was a monster)
- Cascapedia 8/9
- Orvis battenkill IV (or the IV Spey, I am struggling on which one would be best suited
Anyone got any expierence with these reels on a 11ft switch?
The set up i am stuck on is my switch rod, a nice wee vision number I picked up on the forum. I have paired it with a airflo #6 switch line and it goes out lovely. The bit I am struggling with is the reel, I originally had a guideline favo 8/10 on it which I use on my 13ft, it held the line & decent amount of backing but felt too big for the rod, so I went to another guideline reel I have which is 7/8 but it fly line didn’t fit on it let alone any backing. Getting on a bit in the season and needing to fish the set up i ended up putting an old scierra 7/9 reel I had on it, it only just fit the fly line and with limited space I ended up putting 100yards of power pro as backing, not ideal but it got my on the small local for the last couple of weeks of the season. The scierra 7/9 is physically a good size (3.75in) but I wouldn’t want to rely on that backing and even then, the whole head doesn't fit on the reel. I have to take the spool off and store it off the cage when I break the rod down.
I have been looking at reels and was wondering if anyone had experience with them from a capacity & physical size point of view. It seems I am in the realms of bigger trout reels or very light salmon.
- Vision tank 7/9 (I had the 12+ of this and loved it, but it was a monster)
- Cascapedia 8/9
- Orvis battenkill IV (or the IV Spey, I am struggling on which one would be best suited
Anyone got any expierence with these reels on a 11ft switch?