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Originally Posted by Pikebreath
With widespread use of stiffer and lighter graphite in rod building, we have seen an evolution of rods towards faster tip casting actions,,, and stiffer rods typically have less bend / feel down into the butt / handle of the rod. I suspect this has created a generation or two of casters who through rote casting and muscle memory have developed casting strokes dependent on the timing and cadence necessary to cast their fast action rods. In other words they have become mechanical casters with a very consistent (typically fast) casting stroke very dependent on timing over feel.
So in todays world, we have a lot of casters looking for that rod and line combination that suits their casting stroke (which is good for business for the fly rod and fly line makers!!!)
That said, I would venture to argue that most really good casters can make pretty much any balanced rod / line combination perform admirably becuz they can cast by feel and can readily adjust their stroke to match the rod line combination in their hand.
Back in the day of bamboo and glass and even into the early graphite days, rods were much softer in action requiring the angler to adjust the casting stroke by feel to match the rods action.
By the same token, many fly anglers (new and intermediate) would do well to chose a slower medium action fly rod on which to learn to better feel their casting stroke.
And FWIW, I agree that for lighter line, shorter casting applications like dry fishing for stream trout, a DT line with a slow to medium action rod can be the ticket to enjoyable and successful days on the water.
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Pike....
Fishermen have been lead down the garden path and feed BS.
Graphite rods suffer an incredible problem. Thematerial is so stiff that the only way to make a decent casting rod in lighter line weights is to make either the rod thinner or thinner side walls. In both cases, a fly will and have completely torn off the tip.
So, in order not to have this incredible failure rate, the rods are made with thicker sidewalls and thereby stiffer and taking a much heavier line to bend them. So what do tbe manufacturers do, call them fast action rods when really they are rods that are mislabelled. Nearly every graphite rod made in under 6 weight requires a line weight one or more line weights heavier than the rod is labelled.
Don't buy into the BS.
For those that get caught by the underlining crap are readily identified as looking for all tbe world like a windshield wiper on high.
Now I gotta get back to building rods that are true to the line weight suggested.
Don