04-18-2012, 04:32 AM
If you fish lakes, a sinking line is must.
Trolling, or kick trolling from a float/pontoon with a sinking line can be effective.
I purchased a redingtong crosswater to start fly fishing and still use it today. I have since upgraded to better fly line and reel.
I don't understand why you feel the line is heavy, it should have been matched with the appropriate size fly line. Example, if your rod says 5wt, the supplied fly line should be 5wt fly line.
if you oversize your line(meaning you add a 6 wt line to 5wt rod) you might get more then you bargained for as some lines are designed to be overlined such as the rio grande by rio fly line. the crosswater does not have enough back bone IMO to handle over lining unless you know the fly line is not already overlined for you.
stick with matching the fly line to fly rod wt and you should not go wrong. Rio makes great lines and I reccomend them.
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Trolling, or kick trolling from a float/pontoon with a sinking line can be effective.
I purchased a redingtong crosswater to start fly fishing and still use it today. I have since upgraded to better fly line and reel.
I don't understand why you feel the line is heavy, it should have been matched with the appropriate size fly line. Example, if your rod says 5wt, the supplied fly line should be 5wt fly line.
if you oversize your line(meaning you add a 6 wt line to 5wt rod) you might get more then you bargained for as some lines are designed to be overlined such as the rio grande by rio fly line. the crosswater does not have enough back bone IMO to handle over lining unless you know the fly line is not already overlined for you.
stick with matching the fly line to fly rod wt and you should not go wrong. Rio makes great lines and I reccomend them.
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