I agree with almost everything your guest says here! I also use a six weight, 10 foot rod with a wf floating line for most of my streamer fishing. When I want to get deeper, I add a sinking tungsten coated poly leader, add a short tippet and that works for me! I make my own tapered leaders and also fish two flys but closer together, about two feet or so, apart! My dropper is usually a wet fly size 12 or 10 on a short tag, about 4 “ to reduce tangles, with the streamer( lure) on the point! Tight lines!

Always great to listen to Craig imparting his knowledge. A great podcast.

I thankyou so much for the sit down and talk, I will have to replay this again with a coffee tomorrow as my head hurts from all the input. I'm just starting out after 20 yrs off the fly and loving it again 😁

Interesting commentary re the weighting of lines. Given 'line weight' is measured as a function of the first 30' of line, any particular rod would be expected to perform in a certain manner. Would it not be reasonable to expect that 'weight' could be increased or decreased simply by having more or less line outside the rod tip? i.e. an extra two metres of line would effectively increase the weight of the line, less line would decrease the 'weight'. Either option would cause a change in the manner in which a rod functions.

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That's spot on Bill. There's a sweet spot with all lines - but unfortunately we're never just casting a set distance ie. 30 feet. So taper design also plays a crucial role in how they perform at longer distance, and the number of false casts required to get the fly out when streamer fishing.