I have an old fiberglass 8Ft 8weight fly rod and thinking of replacing the snake guides with spinning rod guides and using it for a Crappie rod with 4 pound line to throw 1/16th an 1/32 Jigs. has anyone out here tried it ?
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I have an old fiberglass 8Ft 8weight fly rod and thinking of replacing the snake guides with spinning rod guides and using it for a Crappie rod with 4 pound line to throw 1/16th an 1/32 Jigs. has anyone out here tried it ?
Yes, and I didn't like it. I think a light graphite spinning rod is a much better choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by hugastump
Also, I'd hate to see an old fly rod mutilated like that. There's still a market for the old fiberglass rods. If it's in decent shape, I'm sure you could easily sell it on ebay.
Thank you for the input.
I use an older (no collector value) glass rod with snake guides and it casts fine. Before you go through the effort to change the guides, try it the way it is.
Thanks ,was wondering about that . braided line with a 4 pound test leader is sort of like fly line.
What is the make and model?Quote:
Originally Posted by hugastump
I prefer snake eyes on a lot of my rods. I have many of them that I use for all sorts of stuff other than fly fishing. Most of my steelhead rods have snake eyes (and they are not fly rods). I would however be concerned with the heft of it. An 8 wt fly rod is pretty darned big. I have some awesome crappie rods that are built on 4 wt rods.
It is an Yellow Eagle Claw 8 wheight line bass rod , BUT been modified a few years ago by having the tip shut in the station wagon tail gate about 4 inches from the end. So I cut it off square stuck the remaining tip into the hallow center with some 5 Minute epoxy, does not work as well but got me through the week end.
8 weight is way heavy!! Bill Dance did a show on using a fly rod/spinning reel and he wasn't casting he was using it for dipping jigs around stumps and he was using a 4 weight.
I have 3 bamboo fly rods for fly fishing ; one my grand fathers . comes out to show my brothers grand kids and back to the case and bottom dresser drawer , then a 3Wht and a 5 wht I found at a flee market near Kalkaska Michigan for 10 dollars each. Use them on Gills an stream Trout . Thought the broken Glass rod would handle Crappie an small bass better than the bamboo.
I'm looking at an 8' "wet fly" rod, that I had converted into a spinning rod for trout fishing way back in the 60's. Tubular fiberglass was "the" thing back then. Resurrecting this ancient memorabilia, led me to accept that modern graphite is so far superior, that it isn't even an even playing field. The rod, when combined with the same ole Johnson Century under spin, filled with 2# test Trilene, felt like a CLUB in my hands. With no semblance of sensitivity of the modern counterpart. If you ask me, it's a waste of time. Keep it to pass down to your grandkids for history's sake only. JMO! :)
Maybe I will do that , I will keep looking around yard sales and see if I can find a graphite rod I can afford.
Graphite Fly rod blanks are readily available and fairly cheap (around $40), just build a new rod with a faster action graphite fly blank.
What is your budget? There are a lot of quality 7' - 9' rods available these days for under the $50.00 range. Check out Grizzly Jig Co..Quote:
Originally Posted by hugastump
I bought a micro lite series rod at BP for $59. 9'6" long lite action. I use it for crappie and other pan fish and it casts great, it is a spinning rod.
Those yellow eagle claw rods are nice rods. Have used them since I was a kid and that was a long time ago. Might try a small spinning reel under it. Although it might be hard to cast I have seen people use them that way.