I have a 9ft 8wt and and a 13ft 7wt, is it possible to get a fly line that will work on both for:
Swinging small and medium sized flies with a sink tip, Casting in tight quarters, Nymphing with an indicator
Or will I truly need 2 separate lines?
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by a120800
Very doubtful. Do you happen to know the line grain weight window for the spey rod? If not you can get a ballpark off the Echo or Rio sites. (Look in documents.) I'm guessing that 13' 7wt weight is going to be in the 480-560gr weight range, which is well more than double an 8wt range.
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by Independent
Ya the gr is 480-570, so do you think I cud find a gr that wud cover 7 and 8?
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by a120800
If they were both 9 footers, yeah sure. But line weights get wonky and ridiculous when you start going to switch and spey rods. Personally, I think they should completely do away with the old fashioned nominal AFFTA weights and just print the grain weight window on the rods and fly line boxes.
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by Independent
What if the 9ft 8wt rod was for only 10-30 ft distances could I get away with a skagit line paired to the 13ft 7wt?
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by a120800
You can download the different
AFFTA standards for standard weight line and spey lines,
or here. You will see they are very different.
240gr is already solidly into nominal 9wt territory, yet it probably wouldn't even load your spey rod. Likewise, if you try to throw 500gr weight line on a 9' 8wt, you could break the rod. It's just not spined for that.
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by Independent
Oh this is perfect info. Thanks for saving me a broken rod, much thanks!
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by a120800
It took me well over a year to figure out what line to put on a discontinued 11'3" nominal 6wt switch rod, and I still have never used that rod. They really shouldn't confuse the issue by calling these things 6wts and 7wts cuz they're not.
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by Independent
Ya makes sense.
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by a120800
Two lines. One's a spey/switch line with a completely different taper and grain weight and style (likely a Skagit head), the other is a typical single-hander with backbone that requires a whole other taper, really maybe a couple different lines, to do what you want with it.
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by Loyalist_84
Ya too bad there’s not in all in one haha.
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by a120800
No. You need two lines. Go to bad fly shop an they will sort you out.
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by BeeElls
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