Yes, the typical Euro nymph rod has it's stripper located closer to the reel seat than a traditional fly rod. A size 10 is fine. Many Euro nymph rods use singe foot guides, but that is not a requirement. A down-locking reel seat with small fighting butt will help balance the rod better and the butt will give your forearm a resting place. You can buy a packaged downlocking reel seats with recessed hood in fighting butt from Proof Fly Fishing or Custom Fly Rod Crafters.
It is debatable if you need to taper the size of running guides. You can go from the size 10 stripper directly to a common size running guide if you like. See article on guides [
www.rodbuilding.org]
For a 10 ft 3 weight you do not need your final running guides to be any larger than a single foot size 2, and many would say use a size 1. Here is what Sage recommended in regard to placement and size for their 10 foot ESN rods when they were selling blanks: [
www.flyshack.com] I would print that out fast as they no longer sell blanks so it may not be up long.
I would not go up 2 sizes, as Sage indicates. Your smallest single foot running guides should be a 1 or a 2. And a 10 stripper is fine. 12 is OK too.
I would suggest:
10 or 12 stripper, 1 size 4 single foot, one size 3 single foot and from that all size 1 or size 2 single foot. The other side of the debate would say 10 or 12 stripper, and all the rest size 1 or size 2.
I presume you have built rods but just not fly or nymph. Small single foot guides take some practice and patience to wrap, and you can look at the Forhan locking wrap that some espouse.
Proof Fly Fishing suggest this guide placement: [
www.proofflyfishing.com]
Previous debate on this forum: [
www.rodbuilding.org]
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/25/2023 12:49PM by david taylor.
