Switch

[phearless]

I am thinking about a 6wght switch for next season.
The thought is dries for big rivers i.e. the "T", and fishing nymphs/eggs.
Any suggestions?

[knotnot]

A long time ago I dated a 125wght switch.
I suspect you are talking about another kind of nymph fishing.
I have never heard of a switch rod.
Thanks for the question phearless.

[SalaR]

a 6/7 switch would fill that bill very nicely...on the larger rivers overhead casting can also be a good thing..so the rod you want should have enough back bone to do the jobs asked. Proper line matches are a key component to really liking your rod..and fishing it into it's limits...unfortunately in the world of Switch rods there are few excellent matches...although there is One Company that really has worked hard at getting these lines to perform to the max and they have succeeded..
I did a line review on One of these lines.
C

[patches]

i got the new z-axis switch rod by sage , ....her name is olive...she is buttifull !
its a 11 foot 8 wt but wow ....i think i want her little sister to ,a nice 6-7 would be nice ! best rod i have fished.

[speyghillie]

Hey Phearless,
I should be back in Vernon in March with a bunch of rods including some little double hander trout rods, going to giving them a blast on the Shuswap river, so if you want to try them out while fishing i wil show you where to catch all the Troot on the Shuswap.
Happy Xmas everybody.
Gordon.

[phearless]

Sounds like a plan Gordon.
See you then.
Merry Christmas.

Fred

[professori]

last spring i got the Amundson 1106-4 matched with the Rio Outbound line. I fished the Thompson in the summer with it and had a blast. It punches line very well and has plenty of backbone to land those big, nasty Thompson
'bows. The finish on the rod is very nice and it is a true pleasure to cast all day long.

[dinsdale piranha]

i've re-thought this a bit. last year i fished the thompson with a 12'6 4-5-6wt meiser and a 9' 5wt sage (single hander). the spey rod was great for swinging nymphs and dropping big dries into far away seams, but it was not very good in close. i also did not like picking up line below me in water i had not yet fished. even though i could not reach some of the water i wanted to cover, i ended up using the single hander much more. i now think the ideal thompson trout rod is a 10'-10'6 4-6wt single hander. and if it had a bit of a fighting butt, it could be spey cast. if you could find a light enough switch rod of about 11' length, that would work too.

that meiser has now got squamish pinks (and similar fisheries) written all over it!

dinsdale

[phearless]

Thanks for the info all.
I am still pondering which to choose.
Much to look at.
Hoping to test drive a couple first.

[Nuggy]

I have no experience myself with switch rods but I`ll throw some things out as food for thought. I noticed the new lineup of Redington CPX rods has four switch rods in the catalog this year.

CPX Switch Rods
Model HANDLE LENGTH LINE WT. ROD WT. Price
CPX 10654 SWITCH 10'6" 5 5.6oz 349.00
CPX 10664 SWITCH 10'6" 6 5.7oz 349.00
CPX 11374 SWITCH 11'3" 7 6.1oz 349.00
CPX 11384 SWITCH 11'3" 8 6.2oz 349.00

I remember reading various threads on the Rod Building.Org site that Bob Meiser liked Dan Craft FT`s as switch blanks. A quick search gave me this.

I do recommend Dan Craft 10' FT blanks for switch rod application, because I have found that they are among the few "single handed " blanks that have the inherent correct tapers, speed of recovery, and durability to meet both single and two handed applications, and I have reviewed them accordingly.

They are wonderful blanks for this application....

...But I do use all of my own proprietary blanks on RB Meiser Rods.

Cheers
Nuggy