Lines for Each Setup For tropical work, all-around recommendations: Bonefish 8wt: RIO Bonefish, Scientific Anglers Amplitude Bonefish both float, both designed for tropical climates (don't melt or stiffen) Permit 9wt: RIO Permit (heavier head, loads bigger crab flies), SA Amplitude Grand Slam Baby tarpon 10wt: RIO Tarpon, SA Amplitude Tarpon (both intermediate sink-tip options work well in mangroves) Adult tarpon 12wt: RIO InTouch Big Nasty, SA Sonar Tropical Camo (intermediate sink-tip) Roosterfish 1011wt: RIO Outbound Short Tropical, SA Sonar Titan Tropical Camo Travel Considerations Always 4-piece: every premium saltwater rod is now 4-piece
Mending allows you to get a better presentation and straighter lines as well as controlling slack line on the water
This Hardy combo (an 11-weight rod with an 11-weight reel), which isnt a true combo , is the best way to enter the big fish game
a sunny July day in the late 1970s, me (with a full head of hair) pulling on a piece of rope attached to our dock and at the end of it in this odd-shaped metal contraption with tons of little fish and the occasional crawfish wiggling inside
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I found it in Goodland, cracking stone crab claws at a picnic table while a brown pelican worked the dock pilings