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Can You Use A Fly Fishing Reel On A Normal Stream Fishing Pole?

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 at 8:48 am and is filed under Fly Fishing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

6 Responses to “Can You Use A Fly Fishing Reel On A Normal Stream Fishing Pole?”

1. 1 G T September 16th, 2009 at 8:50 am

   You could but you’d look like a dork and it wouldn’t cast at all!

2. 2 Steve T September 16th, 2009 at 8:50 am

   You could fish with a tree branch like huck finn , but you may not catch anything. the answer is more no than yes

3. 3 Colleen September 16th, 2009 at 8:50 am

   The reel may be automatic or single action, but in any event, it should be larger enough to hold the usual 30 yards of fishing line without crowding it on the reel spool.
   The reel should weigh from 1 ¼ to 1 ½ as much as the bare rod. The reel itself is of no specific use in casting or fishing except as a storage place for the line.

4. 4 wana bigger bike September 16th, 2009 at 8:50 am

   you can try it but a fly fishing reel has sooooo much drag and stuff that for one it might be hard and it might be easy to cast…two it will take forever to land a fish…3 what line would you be using?

5. 5 The Wormist September 16th, 2009 at 8:50 am

   if you mean a spinning rod, yes. but you might have trouble deciding which weight fly line to use. to be safe, try a 6 to 8 weight. in a weight forward.

6. 6 Laverna Klaers June 24th, 2010 at 10:51 am

   Hi This is a excellent website and found the entry intriging,this will improve my catch specially where I like to go fishing,striper are the better in this area and easy to catch when the water is moving,I use a multiple amount of live and artificial bait then we will work it out.

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