An alternative to fishing lead on a flyrod is to fish a lighter rod with a single action centerpin for a reel. I fish a GL3 with a JW Young Seldex and find it as enjoyable as fishing my 8wt. Fishing lead or heavy shooting heads is essentially drift fishing anyways(have you ever seen guys cast shooting heads....UGLY!). With a centerpin, once you hookup, the fight is the same as on a flyrod.
In my opinion fly fishing should be graceful and relaxing, and chucking lead and heavy heads defeats the purpose.Just a thought....

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