I’m sorry for the onslaught of questions in the past 24 hours but thank you all so much for your help. Excited to give this thing a whirl this evening!
Can’t find a model number. This is the first time I’ve ever taken a fly reel apart. It’s neat but idk what anything is. I’m a spinning/baitcast guy. If you recognize the reel model, from what I understand that would be beneficial to me figuring this out too. Any help is appreciated.
Perusing through a thrift store today I found this. eBay valued the rod anywhere from $80-150 so I figured for $15 why not? The reel even works.
I’m not new to fishing by any means, but I’ve fly fished twice on guided tours where all I did was cast what they handed me. I don’t live anywhere near a trout population. I’m primarily a bass guy, but I dabble with crappie and bream are everywhere here to the point of being a nuisance in many cases.
I have SO many questions. I’m planning on just going to the Bass Pro at the Pyramid tomorrow and hoping someone can tell me everything they know but I feel like I don’t even know what questions I need to be asking.
I have SO many questions.
I think Wt is how you guys define reel size?
A medium light spinning rod and a 4000 size freshwater reel can tackle everything except catfish here. Is this similar to that or do I have limitations?
I’m right-handed, but I use left-handed reels. Is this the same? Do they even make left-handed fly reels?
Im assuming the rod is nice and the reel is random garbage, can I get by for bass and panfish with like a $40 bass pro fly reel?
Can I somehow flip this reel to make it LH retrieve?
I fish 30lb braid to 12lb fluoro leaders for bass in most cases. or straight 12lb fluoro for panfish on like cheapo spincast reels. We have a ton of snags around here so it sounds heavy but realistically I’ve caught a lot of bass on straight 30lb braid around here. Water clarity is generally terrible so the heaviness doesn’t matter much. That said, I know for clear water trout trips we’d never throw more than 6lb line. Do I need to stick to that for a fly reel? Like is that how they’re intended to be used?
I have no idea what I’m doing with this combo other than oh it’s cool and it was $15 and if I need to I can just replace the reel but I am a complete novice to all this.
TLDR; I have a lot of questions. If you didn’t read it you’re gonna be annoyed with me, my bad. Somebody help me figure out what I need please.