Added this to the previous thread, but too late for any readers...

Lou, Steve, Spencer - I'm glad to hear that there are other "closet" short rod (sts) people out there. I wasn't at all surprised about using a blank that's not specifically a fly blank - I understand that a rod "doesn't know what it is." What did surprise me was this blank CC'd at over a ten weight (more than 88 pennies) yet works well with 8 or 9 wt fly line. It casts with only 10- 20 feet of line past the tip and shoots an additional 10-20 feet, and it casts with 40 feet of line past the tip and manages another 10-15 feet on the shoot, and I consider myself an average caster. I guess I was wondering if I would notice the same effect by taking a 5 or 6 wt (I should probably say a rod with that ERN) and used 3 wt line on it. I also suppose you could take a broom handle with two guides on it and manage to cast fly line with it, but I wouldn't expect this kind of performance. I really like the CC system and use it regularly, it's just that this seemed to fall out of bounds a little - which is not logical, so there must be something I don't understand that allows this to work...that's what I've been bamboozled by. Maybe I need to do some more experimenting. Thanks for the inputs.

==dave==

Nothing about the CCS says you can't cast what you did on that rod. Remember, any rod will cast any line. And you're correct, you can cast a fly line with a broom handle. Don't confuse the system to say that you simply can't get a rod to cast a particular line. There will be certain situations where certain lines match certain rods better - this is true whether we're taking about fly lines or bass plugs. But you can cast just about any fly line with a cane pole, if you want. If you get the line moving, make a good stop and form a loop, the line will cast.

Lefty Kreh can cast nearly a whole fly line without any rod at all.


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