How to Choose The Best Fly Reel | WATCH Before Deciding! 

This guy does not blink

I use a hardy udla green on my sage sonic and a lamson remix smoke on my scott centric.

I'm glad I watched this video. I was having trouble getting my Penn International electric to fit the Oyster 3 wt.

I‘m missing the link to the video on rod/reel balance. Would be interesting to know why balance does not matter when it influences the moment of inertia of the entire setup. But maybe there’s a reason (other than looking a bit alien) why the Waterworks Lamson Center-Axis rod/reel combination wasn’t a huge success.

Ross Colorado or Animas and then everything else (unless you can afford Abel). I am not a fan of my Sage Reel and I hear they were clearanced last year due to drag issues. Hardy is fine and Lamson is great for the money but under $400 Ross is my go to.

Easy - You just check to see if has Tibor written on it.

You have to establish the grams length ratio (GLR) of your rod before anything else... once you have that... you can pick the right sized reel and fly line. You measure the rod blank from tip to the handle, divide by 10 ànd draw a line that length on a sheet of paper. Take a film container or medicine bottle and attach a paper clip hook into it. Straighten the paper clip and heat one end to pierce the plastic and make a hole in it. Form an S clip with the paper clip and attach it to the container. Find a table and firmly place the rod handle onto the table so that the entire blank is freely out in the air and is level. Move the tip towards a wall... but NOT touching the wall. Make sure that only the handle is on the table. Weigh it down so that it can't move. Take your sheet of marked paper and tape it to the wall so that the tip... is level with the top of the perpendicular line. Carefully... attach the container to the rod tip and fill the container with shot or water until the tip droops level with the bottom of the drawn line... Use a kitchen scale that measures grams and measure the entire assembly... (paper ciip... container... shot or water)... Divide the gross measured weight by the length of the ratio line.... ...That wil give you the result as to the exact line weight for that rod... and the matching reel size... .. example... Ratio Line Weight 1.4-1.6 3 1.6- 1.9 4 1.9-2.2 5 2.2-2.6 6 2.6-3.0 7 3.0- 3.5 8 3.5-4.2 9 4.2-5.0 10 My Sage rod is marked as a 7... and its GLR is 2.76... which indicates... pretty much... a perfect 7 line weight... My custom rod... unmarked... same length... an once lighter... is a GLR 2.96... which is on the high side of a 7 line weight... and just barely... a possible 8 weight... So.. in my case... which is the best line and reel combo....???... decisions... decisions... 😢 PS... I use both rods as 7's... but if I have to go for steelhead... I can use an 8 on the custom rod... 😊

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Awesome video! This helped! But dude it’s ok Blink once in a while

Strongly disagree I run 7/8 reel on a 5/6wt.. Why because a larger reel has more pick up and you get less tangles in your larger fly reels in which I bloody hate in smaller reels!

I’m gonna have to disagree about the not caring about balance thing. 6 hours into a day of throwing a tip heavy 8 weight you’re gonna be wishing you had a heavier reel. Then again, that’s just my personal preference.

Do you even blink?

I disagree, balance DOES matter.

There is absolutely no need for 150 yards of backing line. If you're fishing light saltwater, and your fish gets 150 yards + your main line away from you, then find another hobby