Comments on: The Complete Ultralight Fishing Guide http://ultralight-fishing.com/ultralight-fishing/the-complete-ultralight-fishing-guide/ Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:43:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ladawn Mcfield http://ultralight-fishing.com/ultralight-fishing/the-complete-ultralight-fishing-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-400 Ladawn Mcfield Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:03:19 +0000 http://ultralight-fishing.com/?p=62#comment-400 The open water fishing is better in this part but does anyone have some information on any decent rivers to fish,particualarly searching to find some flying carp,a few other guys have hooked some good sizes here lately. The open water fishing is better in this part but does anyone have some information on any decent rivers to fish,particualarly searching to find some flying carp,a few other guys have hooked some good sizes here lately.

]]> By: Milda Noggle http://ultralight-fishing.com/ultralight-fishing/the-complete-ultralight-fishing-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-365 Milda Noggle Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:13:55 +0000 http://ultralight-fishing.com/?p=62#comment-365 Hi This is a great site and found the page helpful,this will aid my results particularly when im fishing the river,I will check back for more tips. Should you ever find some unheard of lures be sure to post. Hi This is a great site and found the page helpful,this will aid my results particularly when im fishing the river,I will check back for more tips. Should you ever find some unheard of lures be sure to post.

]]> By: Josh http://ultralight-fishing.com/ultralight-fishing/the-complete-ultralight-fishing-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Josh Thu, 13 May 2010 05:03:42 +0000 http://ultralight-fishing.com/?p=62#comment-65 Glad you enjoyed it. I'm going to be cleaning it up over the next few days, hopefully adding new content to it. With the weather warming up I've been slinging a fly, but my ultralight rods keep glaring at me. Tight lines! Josh Glad you enjoyed it. I’m going to be cleaning it up over the next few days, hopefully adding new content to it. With the weather warming up I’ve been slinging a fly, but my ultralight rods keep glaring at me.

Tight lines!

Josh

]]> By: Al Davison http://ultralight-fishing.com/ultralight-fishing/the-complete-ultralight-fishing-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Al Davison Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:26:39 +0000 http://ultralight-fishing.com/?p=62#comment-29 UL Baitcasters: My assumption: I normally consider true UL to be 4# or less. So, I don't even call my setup a true UL because I can't really get it to work well with anything under a typical 6# mono diameter. The take-up on most of the baitcasters is calibrated for a certain line diameter range. Line diameters below that calibration don't spool correctly and lead to "packing up" and, inevitably shorter casts or "bird nests" after a dozen or so casts. That said, I agree with your choice of the Pixy and/or Calcutta but those things are ridiculously over-priced! I went with a Daiwa TD Sol - bought it used off eBay - and sent it off for super-tuning. I have less than $200 in the reel and it works better than a new one! Daiwa reels have notoriously poor drag washers but my tuner installed CarbonTex washers during the supertuning process and that made a HUGE difference in how progressive and reliable the drag is now. As you mentioned in another article, having the drag set correctly is KEY to successful UL/light-line fishing. I've currently paired my TD Sol with a St. Croix Avid, 7' ML rod. It's still a tad bit stiffer than I would like but the choices for UL baitcasting rods are slim. I plan to have a rod custom-built for it using a true light action, moderately-fast blank as soon as I can afford it. (As an aside, I will have it built using micro-guides because they are just da' bomb! You should do an article on micro-guides sometime.) Anyway, just found your site and I really like it so, THANKS! Al Athens, Georgia UL Baitcasters:
My assumption: I normally consider true UL to be 4# or less.

So, I don’t even call my setup a true UL because I can’t really get it to work well with anything under a typical 6# mono diameter. The take-up on most of the baitcasters is calibrated for a certain line diameter range. Line diameters below that calibration don’t spool correctly and lead to “packing up” and, inevitably shorter casts or “bird nests” after a dozen or so casts.

That said, I agree with your choice of the Pixy and/or Calcutta but those things are ridiculously over-priced!

I went with a Daiwa TD Sol – bought it used off eBay – and sent it off for super-tuning. I have less than $200 in the reel and it works better than a new one! Daiwa reels have notoriously poor drag washers but my tuner installed CarbonTex washers during the supertuning process and that made a HUGE difference in how progressive and reliable the drag is now. As you mentioned in another article, having the drag set correctly is KEY to successful UL/light-line fishing.

I’ve currently paired my TD Sol with a St. Croix Avid, 7′ ML rod. It’s still a tad bit stiffer than I would like but the choices for UL baitcasting rods are slim. I plan to have a rod custom-built for it using a true light action, moderately-fast blank as soon as I can afford it. (As an aside, I will have it built using micro-guides because they are just da’ bomb! You should do an article on micro-guides sometime.)

Anyway, just found your site and I really like it so, THANKS!

Al
Athens, Georgia

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