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Except for the Delaware which I've never fished, are there any streams in PA where you've had a trout take you into your backing?
Make a 70-80 foot cast and damn near any decent fish you catch will take you into your backing. Not sure what the significance of it is except to ensure the knot is good.Except for the Delaware which I've never fished, are there any streams in PA where you've had a trout take you into your backing?
Except for the Delaware which I've never fished, are there any streams in PA where you've had a trout take you into your backing?
Yep. In 60 years of fly fishing, I've had trout (other than steelhead on the West Coast) run me into backing twice. In both cases, I was fishing at the top of long, too deep to wade run, making a long cast and feeding line downstream, so that I had at least 75 feet of line outside the rod tip before I hooked the fish. And by "run me onto to backing" I mean that backing was pulled off the reel -- in neither case did the backing make it out of the tip top.Make a 70-80 foot cast and damn near any decent fish you catch will take you into your backing. Not sure what the significance of it is except to ensure the knot is good.