I was just wondering if a 9ft 6wt. fly rod blank would make a suitable light weight spinning rod 6-10 lbs test line? or will i need a lighter or heavyer weight blank? I was looking at a forcast blank to make the rod because i have a request for a blue rod. It will be used for trout, bass, and posssibly salmon.Any input on this blank would be healpful.
Thank you
Tyler



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/28/2005 12:41AM by Tyler Bell.

I use fly blanks quite often for spinning rods,,, after all they were used as spinning rods , to cast lures etc. before the actual spinning rods... Every customer of mine that has a fly rod blank that was built as a spinning rod is VERY PLEASED with the rod. I think your blank would do just fine. Go for it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tight lines & smokin' drags,

Art

Depending on exactly how the manufacturer has rated it per a 6-weight line, that would put you on a spinning blank rated to throw about 3/8th's lure weight. There is no cross-over from fly line weight (weight) to spinning line pound test (breaking strength). only from weight to weight.

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I have a couple of 7wt fly blanks that I wrapped as spinning rods and I fish 4# line on them and it works great never broke off a fish yet and I don't really baby them. I do heave up to 1/2 ounce with it so what Tom said would seem to fit. In my opinion 10 # line may be a bit heavy for a 6wt. Other than that I think it would be a fun rod to fish.

Forecast makes a 9' 4-8 lb salmon steelhead rod that I really like. I built mine to use for crappie and it is fun to fish. In fact, I ended up building another one for a buddy after he fished mine. I think the old version is in blue and they've moved to clear gloss on the new models, so finding the old ones might be hard, but I know Schneiders have them on their site. They also come in 8-12#.

I think too often folks tend to go heavy on line thinking that the big fish will succumb to a heavier line.

Several years ago, I went from 6lb MagnaThin to 8lb for walleyes in Canada. Several times my lead head jugs locked into rock. Do you know how hard you have to pull directly on the line in order to break an 8lb test line? The next year it was back to 6lb. In fact my brother caught a 41 1/2 inch pike on the same rig.

If the blank is going to be soft enough for a 3/8ths lure, 6 lb is plenty of line to handle most anything you could pull in with this rod. And it will cast farther with the 6lb test than the 10ld test line.

If you can find the " correct " CC numbers for the fly blank, just put that number over 16. This will get you in the ballpark on lure weight. If it is a 5 wt CC numbers, then 5/16 is a good start for lure weight.

Richard Carlsen Wrote:
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> I think too often folks tend to go heavy on line
> thinking that the big fish will succumb to a
> heavier line.
>
> Several years ago, I went from 6lb MagnaThin to
> 8lb for walleyes in Canada. Several times my lead
> head jugs locked into rock. Do you know how hard
> you have to pull directly on the line in order to
> break an 8lb test line? The next year it was back
> to 6lb. In fact my brother caught a 41 1/2 inch
> pike on the same rig.
>
> If the blank is going to be soft enough for a
> 3/8ths lure, 6 lb is plenty of line to handle most
> anything you could pull in with this rod. And it
> will cast farther with the 6lb test than the 10ld
> test line.

I wonder if the brand of that mono-line is your go-to-line, I mean Magna Thin.
I bought, some years ago now, that same line in #8 Lb test, and got worn out really easy.
I checked the left-over in the spool and looked kind of dry nylon to me.

Did I just get a "bad package"?

Thanks!

You can also go too a braid line. You will have to put a mono leader on or cut the line when you get stuck in a tree or rocks ?