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Just got my custom made 920g fly line for 90' deep

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Just got my custom made 920g fly line for 90' deep

Postby flyfishing md » April 6th, 2013, 7:36 pm

I just got my 920 g sinking line now I can go after those big calicos @ Catalina and San Clemente plus other spices of fish that live deep
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Re: Just got my custom made 920g fly line for 90' deep

Postby RichardCullip » April 6th, 2013, 7:46 pm

Sweet. Good luck on the new adventure.
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Re: Just got my custom made 920g fly line for 90' deep

Postby lucfish » April 6th, 2013, 7:54 pm

Interesting that something like that is possible now. What do you use to throw that? Does it cast like a sinking line or more like leadcore? How long would it take to get down 90 feet, sinkrate?
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Re: Just got my custom made 920g fly line for 90' deep

Postby flyster » April 6th, 2013, 8:30 pm

Dude I can't even count that high. Keep us posted on how it works out for you.
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Re: Just got my custom made 920g fly line for 90' deep

Postby flyfishing md » April 6th, 2013, 9:10 pm

lucfish wrote:Interesting that something like that is possible now. What do you use to throw that? Does it cast like a sinking line or more like leadcore? How long would it take to get down 90 feet, sinkrate?

10w reel ,10w 9'rod i cast it @ the park it's not that bad ...sinkrate not sure the guy said 25 seconds , ihave to start getting my own data i will do a test run next week cant wait...
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Re: Just got my custom made 920g fly line for 90' deep

Postby flyfishing md » April 6th, 2013, 9:14 pm

RichardCullip wrote:Sweet. Good luck on the new adventure.

tnx. i like new flyfishing adventures...90' :bananadance: :bananadance: :bananadance:
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Re: Just got my custom made 920g fly line for 90' deep

Postby WanderingBlues » April 7th, 2013, 4:55 am

You'll be a member of the Calico Syndicate in no time.
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Re: Just got my custom made 920g fly line for 90' deep

Postby lucfish » April 7th, 2013, 8:51 am

flyfishing md wrote:
lucfish wrote:Interesting that something like that is possible now. What do you use to throw that? Does it cast like a sinking line or more like leadcore? How long would it take to get down 90 feet, sinkrate?

10w reel ,10w 9'rod i cast it @ the park it's not that bad ...sinkrate not sure the guy said 25 seconds , ihave to start getting my own data i will do a test run next week cant wait...


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Re: Just got my custom made 920g fly line for 90' deep

Postby briansII » April 7th, 2013, 8:20 pm

flyfishing md wrote:I just got my 920 g sinking line now I can go after those big calicos @ Catalina and San Clemente plus other spices of fish that live deep


Curious. Is that 920 g the weight of the entire line, or just the head portion? Sounds interesting.

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Re: Just got my custom made 920g fly line for 90' deep

Postby darrin terry » April 8th, 2013, 4:40 pm

I can't even imagine a line of that weight. The heaviest rod I've fished, cast or owned is a 7wt. Hmm, I might have cast an 8wt once or twice, not sure. Still, picturing a 920g fly line on my 7wt prompts mental images of the sudden and catastrophic creation of an unintended hinge somewhere along the 9ft length of my TFO TiCR 7wt. :roll:
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Re: Just got my custom made 920g fly line for 90' deep

Postby Jimbo Roberts » April 9th, 2013, 10:51 am

So are you going to fish 90 feet deep?
That seems crazy on the flyrod.

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Re: Just got my custom made 920g fly line for 90' deep

Postby anacrime » April 9th, 2013, 4:01 pm

Jimbo Roberts wrote:So are you going to fish 90 feet deep?
That seems crazy on the flyrod.

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Pushing the limits, that's for sure. But that's one of the fun parts of this sport. Some of the stuff we consider normal now was unheard of a decade ago.

Some of you old timers must remember when surf fly casting "seemed crazy."
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Re: Just got my custom made 920g fly line for 90' deep

Postby clee » April 9th, 2013, 10:52 pm

I borrowed Bill Calhoun's 850 gr and Xi3 10 wt for an outing at MVL earlier this year. It was not fun. I guess I should have tried it out at the casting club before rocking it out on the water. It does help to elevate yourself on a boat bench and rock your body kinda like when using a long beach leader system.

Good luck with your new rig hopefully we'll be seeing some pigs on this site soon.
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Re: Just got my custom made 920g fly line for 90' deep

Postby briansII » April 10th, 2013, 10:07 am

I was very curious about these super heavy lines, so I did some Google research. It didn't take much to find out what I wanted to know. Kudos to the guys/Calico Syndicate, who are figuring out how to get to the better quality fish. Fly fishing DEEP isn't something new, but I don't think many guys are doing it all the time like they are. Very cool stuff!

I have some experience casting what I thought was heavy heads. Mine are light compared to this stuff. I was very skeptical that a 10wt could cast 800+ grains, but it's right there in the videos. Must say, when I saw the videos of of them false casting those lines, I literally cringed. I know what it feels like to get zapped when casting tungsten impregnated lines.

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Re: Just got my custom made 920g fly line for 90' deep

Postby Bajacamp » April 11th, 2013, 10:50 am

Last year at Diamond Valley Lake I was fishing at 35ft. hooked into a 5.5 stripe bass what a fun pull that was.That was the deepest I've fished a fly line. Good Luck going Deep.......Fred
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