Micro Fly reel

[riverdog]

It looks like he jumped from a 6 wt to 0 wt without any experience with anything in between. The lightest I own is a 1 wt because there is no accepted standards for the 0, 00, and 000 wt rods and lines. Most truly fall in the range for 1 wt by the accepted standards anyways. More just a marketing gimmick than anything else (nothing is bought, everything is sold). Bill Byrd had a nice discussion and testing of some of this but I think his website has been down for a few months. With just a touch of practice it isn't really more challenging to land a fish that size with that 1 wt than a 3 or 4 wt. Sure to land a truly big fish quickly takes quite a bit more practice. But that was a medium size trout in a small river with medium current.
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