5wt sink tip on 6wt rod?

[Bob Richey]

Hey all,
I gave my brother my 5wt rod, but I have a 5wt sink tip I normally use early in the season for smallies.  Do you think it would cast well on a 6wt? Normally I wouldn't underline, but I thought maybe a sink tip would be heavy enough to work. I know I could just try it out, but before I go to the trouble of putting it on a spool, I thought I'd see if it's even worth the effort.  Thanks.

[Lane Thurgood]

I'd absolutely spool it and give it a try.  So many variables play in to the "fit" (flex of the rod, casting distance, size and weight of flies, blah, blah, blah) but at the end of the day it's all about the feel for you.  I underline and overline at will and particularly with one line size, don't give it a second thought.

[Carl Z.]

It depends on so much.  I'm sure it will be castable, but until you try it, you won't be able to tell how well.  It sounds stupid, but you could just streatch the line out on the ground.  Put your existing reel on the rod for weight, but cast the line from the ground.  It saves putting it on a spool, but then you have to untangle it to wind it back up :-) unless you are really careful.

Carl

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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Bob Richey <bob.r...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey all,
I gave my brother my 5wt rod, but I have a 5wt sink tip I normally use early in the season for smallies.  Do you think it would cast well on a 6wt? Normally I wouldn't underline, but I thought maybe a sink tip would be heavy enough to work. I know I could just try it out, but before I go to the trouble of putting it on a spool, I thought I'd see if it's even worth the effort.  Thanks.

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[Bob Richey]

Thanks guys, I'll give it a try.

On Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 9:11:29 AM UTC-4, Bob Richey wrote:

[TurbineBlade]

If I recall, Carl tends to just use whatever lines came spooled on the random glass combos he gets off ebay, which occasionally includes sink tips of unknown weights).  A lot of people prefer sinking lines (or tips) slightly heavier than the stated rod weight, and others may not. 

5 and 6 are so close I doubt you'll notice any problems whatsoever, and it will save you some cash!

This year for shad I took a 250 grain sinking line with a 30' head, and cut off about 3' to make it more manageable for a fenwick ff706 (7-foot, 6-weight fiberglass rod).  The 250 gr was fine, but I like a tiny bit less on that rod.  Beth was using a fenwick ff80, which was (in this instance) a 8-foot, 7/8 weight rod paired with a 300 gr sinking line with about 4' of the head cut off.  It worked extremely well. 

This is mostly a lot of nonsense meant to inspire you to "try just about any darn thing" and it will probably work.  They are all just stupid, thoroughly pointless "fish poles" in the end  ;)

Gene

[Richard Farino]

Bob – what 6wt are you going to line it up on?  Different action rods will behave differently with different line weights.

Most rods can handle a line under and over the actual weight printed on the rod.  An extremely fast 6wt would not cast a 5wt sinking tip all that well.  A slower 6wt graphite rod might handle it fine.  A 5/6wt glass rod would probably make you look like a superstar, and a bamboo rod… well let’s just say you’d be a heathen throwing a sinking tip on panda food.

R

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[Carl Z.]

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:59 PM, TurbineBlade <doubl...@gmail.com> wrote:

If I recall, Carl tends to just use whatever lines came spooled on the random glass combos he gets off ebay, which occasionally includes sink tips of unknown weights).  A lot of people prefer sinking lines (or tips) slightly heavier than the stated rod weight, and others may not. 

Especially for sinking lines.  They don't seem to develop the kinks like floating lines and if the coating gets a bit worn and the line gets water-logged, what's it going to do? sink faster?

I like the idea of cutting back the sinking tip on some of these lines.  I will have to try that.