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Nai31 · Joined: 20 Jun 2019 Posts: 1 Location: New York

Want to fly fish but dont have a fly rod---No problem--Weighed water bobber on the end of your cast--Two dropper loops about 18in apart--5-6 ft from thebobber. Snelled flys, about 4 to 4/12 in of cast.Put loop over loop and the fly out thru. The fly, small size 18 works well.silver body, Small black hackel. Method---Cast 45 degrees into the wind, reel just enough to take up the slack, not enough to move the bobber. Of course, you can try any fly. Now your flys are well out there,beyond normal casting distance. If you want to use a float indicator,take off your two fly rig, place the bottom fly ahead of the bobber at desired depth, and a small strike indicator, bright orange just next to the float.

bulldog1935 · Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2019 2:36 pm Post subject:

some people go the other way, spin-fishing with a fly rod.
http://fiberglassflyrodders.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=65890

In the 50s they built Colorado reels just for spin fishing the new monofilament with a fly rod.
Humphreys, Magic, Fre-Line
Other folks steelhead - called trotting in the UK - with a centrepin reel on their fly rod - it's float fishing with long drifts and a zero-drag reel.
I've had some luck with it on the Guadalupe tailwater, presenting drifts next to deep weirs with no other way to get there.