MAINE - Life in the Slow Lane
Dave, NICE Brown! Details my man, details. Every single one of them. Rod,reel, line, leader,tippet, and fly. The battle? Spring with the juicy details Brother 
Awesome!!!! Congrats!
Great fish Dave, as Koda asked details my man.
See Yah
Lee
Ok caught on a 4wt Gatti rod , Lamson 1.5 oz reel with Rio floating line 9 ft leader and Orvis 5X tippit . Size 16 Tiemco hook . Fly Pattern was a PMD . The temp was 91 with over cast skies and thunder in the back ground . Slight breeze rougly 15 mph. Water temps not sure . I believe from feel about 60 . The fight was a bit sluggish at first . He did manage to go over the lower dam and me following sliding down on my butt was funny to someone who might of been watching. I have to say it was skill but really I slipped. I released the fish after a quick photo in the creek below the dam. I did not want to put him back in the spillway pool because they are going to drain it later this year to replace the dam . Thus killing the fish instead of saving them. That is a whole other story. But myself the local fly shop and my friend Jay plan on releasing them down stream before that happens.
PS I was using 6x tippet when I first entered the stream . I lost my tippet and PMD to a much larger brown on my very first cast. There are some hogs in there . So I thought it best I step up a size in tippet just in case.
Excellent Dave! Lamson makes a 1.5 ounce reel? The lightest I've found is the 3100 and the Dennison. Which model is it? Man I could get down to a 3 ounce total with a 1.5 ounce reel.
A picture of all the gear in with that fish would just put it over the top 
Ah, I see what's up now Dave. That nice little reel is a Lamson LP 1.5, the 1.5 is the size/model number. The reel actually weighs in at 4 ounces according to the scriptures. Which on a 4 weight rod would be about perfect to balance it out right in the grip.
For the extreme loonies ( and I'm not alone ) the benchmark limit for a UL fly reel is 3 ounces, only because, we can't get em any lighter. And believe me, I've tried in vain to design one as it would sell as well as the original Holy Grail. I even did one up in magnesium for a 2 weight and it did not slide under the 3 ounce mark.
Sage is now making one called the click series ( which is the 3100 in spades less the flared spool spoke for counter balance, now replaced with a traditional balance knob) that weighs in at 2 3/8 ounces for the Click II in the 2 weight size. They have added to the original 3100-3200 line up as they now include the Click III & Click IV which will take WF4 & WF5 lines respectively. All of the reels break the 3 ounce mark with the Click IV weighing in at a mere 2 5/8 ounces. One gets to pay handsomely for the Sage name as the reels run from $300 to $320 a reel.
Maybe a 7 1/2 foot 4 or 5 weight rod in IM12 might balance with one of these bantam weight reels, but I do not believe we have 9 foot rods in these weights that would be light enough to balance with the Sage reels at the moment. They would be tip heavy, and myself, I hate that in a fly rod setup.
I know Keith is making up a 1 weight soon, and all this techno crap will come in handy
Koda,
How about the Bass Pro Shop White River Fly Shop Classic ultralight - the specs say 2.4oz and it's only $99?
I'm betting I could knock off another .5oz in the machine shop and swaping out SS hardware for Ti.
Quote by: KtboneKoda,
How about the Bass Pro Shop White River Fly Shop Classic ultralight - the specs say 2.4oz and it's only $99?
I'm betting I could knock off another .5oz in the machine shop and swaping out SS hardware for Ti.
Keith
I'd kill to get that line of reels. In the reviews they complain about noise and stiffness in the reels. The Hiti Kitis can't tune a reel for shit, but I sure can. That click pawl setup can be made to do anything. A simple bridge spring with a Hardy type pawl. And to have a palming rim on a clicker just puts it over the top. They have it in spades on the weight too.
An excellent find my man
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