12-28-2009, 12:16 AM
If you keep your guides clean, go for it.
We went last year and I was breaking ice out of the tip top (swishing in the water works to a point)
I looked at my brothers. Had a clump of ice on the tip and he went into the cast. Well, the weight of the line and fly and any added weight (split shot) plus the flipping, I heard a little snap on his forward presentation.....sure enough, the tip snapped, because the line couldn't go through the guides.
Icy weather can produce really nicely, but does require a little more care to me. It is harder on the lines as well.
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We went last year and I was breaking ice out of the tip top (swishing in the water works to a point)
I looked at my brothers. Had a clump of ice on the tip and he went into the cast. Well, the weight of the line and fly and any added weight (split shot) plus the flipping, I heard a little snap on his forward presentation.....sure enough, the tip snapped, because the line couldn't go through the guides.
Icy weather can produce really nicely, but does require a little more care to me. It is harder on the lines as well.
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