The Ultimate Tiger Fishing Fly Rod Package (Works For Salmon & Steelhead Too)

[gizmo]

Man I just dumped a small fortune into a new 5wt outfit or I'd seriously look at this. It's a outstanding outfit at a very reasonable price.

 

[rookhawk]

Bump- Still available, packed and ready for ship.

 

[rookhawk]

bump to the top for black friday

 

[rookhawk]

Bump to the top. Still packed up for shipment due to the death of the buyer. It's the nicest rig of its kind you'll find.

 

[rookhawk]

Still available. Was sold to a member that sadly passed away before he could consummate the transaction.

 

[rookhawk]

TTT

 

[One Day...]

Nice piece of kit

As illustrated recently in another fly fishing thread, I am fully geared up, including an Orvis Helios 7 wt with mid arbor Battenkill reel and spare spool with sinking line that essentially duplicate this kit, otherwise I would seriously consider this.

Best of luck selling this. The leather covered tube alone is classic

 

[rookhawk]

Nice piece of kit

As illustrated recently in another fly fishing thread, I am fully geared up, including an Orvis Helios 7 wt with mid arbor Battenkill reel and spare spool with sinking line that essentially duplicate this kit, otherwise I would seriously consider this.

Best of luck selling this. The leather covered tube alone is classic

I would say that your ability to toss tigerfish flies will last about 15 mins with a single handed rod. You need a switch or two hander to toss the heavy flies with bite leaders in current.

With a switch rod, I was good for 2-4 hours on the Zambezi before my arms gave out.

 

[One Day...]

I would say that your ability to toss tigerfish flies will last about 15 mins with a single handed rod. You need a switch or two hander to toss the heavy flies with bite leaders in current.

With a switch rod, I was good for 2-4 hours on the Zambezi before my arms gave out.

You are probably right

 

[rookhawk]

You are probably right

send me a PM and I'll give you my phone number. I'm happy to coach you on how to catch Tigers with your kit.

 

[One Day...]

Thank you for the kind offer

Actually, I now rarely use the 7 wt, for this precise reason, as I found that for most fishing I do -- almost exclusively trout -- a 5 wt is plenty enough, and I have been quite lucky with comparatively small flies (#6 is the biggest streamers I use) even on 4+ lbs trout, which to begin with are not so common around here, even on the Colorado River.

I do use the 7 wt on the Kenai River, AK for silver salmon (Coho) though, as it has more spine, which is needed for 10 lbs fish...

Curiously, I have never been tempted to fly fish in Africa. My inner reasoning is that I can fly fish 365 days/year in Arizona if I so wish, from tiny stream to large water to altitude lakes, so when I make it to Africa I really want to spend 100% of my time hunting.

As a matter of fact, I was on Big Lake, AZ (950 acres at 9,000 ft elevation, but happily with a primitive boat ramp) yesterday (snow and 41F air temperature), and I limited out in 3 hours on decent rainbows with a 5 wt and streamers. I typically release everything I catch in mountain streams as the populations are under pressure, not to mention those protected such as Gila and Apache trout, and the fish are generally small, although a couple a large browns can be lurking, but Colorado River Lee's Ferry or "large" high altitude lakes have very healthy populations, and my wife had ordered a family trout dinner sometime during the Thanksgiving holidays

Big Lake, AZ: 950 acres at 9,000 ft elevation, but happily with a primitive boat ramp, by 41F weather on November 22.

14" to 16", 1.5lb to 2lb rainbows: perfect for a family trout dinner sometime during the Thanksgiving holidays.