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DJBerg
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So as I am getting into this whole rod building thing, I just ordered a 12' spey rod build kit. $50 for everything other than threads and epoxies, it's claimed as a 7wt med action. On the ccs scale, it's a 7.65 60 deg action angle.
As of learning last night about spey lines, if I want to put a spey line on it it will need a 275-350 grain head line, equal to about a 4wt line in spey.
So my question is spey wise will that 4wt line work for bigger fish? Steele, salmon, large browns? Or will it break? Sot of confused by all this. Or I might just run a 6wt shooting line, regular fly line, something like rio grand, under lining the rod to make it a little faster.
So yeah who knows exactily what will come about from this, but gudging by its dbi after scaling my buddies center pin pole, it's just about the same. Wish the guides were the same, it would be cool to have a three way functional pole. Cause I can't lie after seeing how a centerpin drifts, that was pretty awesome, but man are those reels expensive.
As of learning last night about spey lines, if I want to put a spey line on it it will need a 275-350 grain head line, equal to about a 4wt line in spey.
So my question is spey wise will that 4wt line work for bigger fish? Steele, salmon, large browns? Or will it break? Sot of confused by all this. Or I might just run a 6wt shooting line, regular fly line, something like rio grand, under lining the rod to make it a little faster.
So yeah who knows exactily what will come about from this, but gudging by its dbi after scaling my buddies center pin pole, it's just about the same. Wish the guides were the same, it would be cool to have a three way functional pole. Cause I can't lie after seeing how a centerpin drifts, that was pretty awesome, but man are those reels expensive.