so what is line weight and why is it important [Music] lineway is important for two reasons
one that it needs to make your Rod Flex because when you cast a fly rod
the line needs to bend that Rod enough to build up some energy to drive it out there now I have
a four weight Rod here four weight is a fairly light line it's used for smaller flies and a four
weight line gives you a lot of delicacy when you put a fly on the water so it doesn't spook fish it
doesn't land very hard and that's great and this 408 Rod handles this four weight line really well
manufacturers build their rods to a specific line weight now if I were throwing a really big heavy
fly then I might want to go to a five or a six or even a seven weight Rod because the bigger
mass of those heavier fly lines will throw those bigger or more air resistant flies better but
here for this Rod I'm going to fish small flies nice delicate presentation and the rod handles
the line really well even in this wind we have today I can make a nice cast and I can deliver
that fly where I want it to go with this four weight now can you over line a fly rod yes you can
over line a fly rod I could probably put a five weight on here and be okay what's going to happen
when you over line a fly rod is that it's going to slow down the rod a little bit the Rod's going to
bend a little bit more casting motions might be a little bit easier but you're going to struggle on
longer casts so you can over overweight a rod by about one line size depending on the manufacturer
you have to try each rod with a heavier line now can you underline a fly rod that's a different
question when you underline a fly rod that fly rod isn't going to flex enough it's not going
to develop that energy when you underline a fly rod you're going to have to work harder you're
going to have to push that Rod to get that line out there so underlining isn't such a great idea
over lining by one size may work okay for you so let's put let's put a five weight line on this
foil weight Rod see how it works and then we'll put a six weight line on here and see how that
looks okay so now I've got a five weight line on this four weight rod and it's pretty Pleasant got
a lot of wind I can still drive it into the wind but when I start to pull more line and try to make
a long cast the rod is going to start bending a little bit more and it's going to put a little
bit more stress on that Rod it's not going to hurt the rod but I'm just going to struggle when I'm
trying to throw a really long cast so great in short distances gonna work just fine I kind of
like it I still like the four weight line better but the five weight line will definitely work on
this Rod so now I have a six weight line on a four weight Rod let's see how this goes
so again just like with the five in short it's fine you know if I'm 15 20 feet out
there yeah it works well let's pull a little bit more line off here and see what happens
and it's working you can make it work but it's starting to flex that Rod a little bit too much
it's starting to bounce a little bit it's kind of overloading that rod and I can see where you know
I wouldn't want to fish this all day long but you know you can make it work if that's all you got
it depends on the Fly Rod depends on the design of the rod but some rods will handle a couple
of line sizes now I'm purposely underlining a rod I've got my four weight line on my six weight rod
see how that goes
and yeah you know you can make it work you can throw this four weight line on this six weight
Rod but I really have to force the rods to get that Rod to bend because there just isn't enough
Mass to bend the rod and the rod really has to bend for you to cast properly so I have to
push it I have to push it a little bit harder and yeah you could fish this way for a day you
could make it work but it's it's hard work it's a struggle you just have to to get that
Rod to bend you just have to push that Rod harder so you can underline a rod you can
over line a rod within one line size not too bad but if you're gonna air in One Direction
I would go with over lining a rod by a line size or maybe two depending on the rod [Music]
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ah did you get all that ah too bad well we got the fish anyway
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thank you [Music]