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Originally posted by DJFISHS2XS:
as to an item posted on this topic...Sparky I do relise that steelheaders use heavy leaders. but the drag from the heavy diameter line along with the softer rods (that restrict how much muscle you can put on the fish) do exhaust fish faster and further then gear rods.
That comment is a little ironic coming from someone who was so very proud of landing a large native steelhead on 'trout gear.'

Again, steelheaders dont use wispy rods. And the drag of the flyline makes little differance...like I said it takes me just as long to land a steelhead with a #9 Spey rod that it does with terminal tackle...and it takes just as long to land a steelhead with my #7 single-hander as it does terminal tackle.
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Ryan S. Petzold
aka Sparkey and/or Special