Sentence examples for weight rod from inspiring English sources

What would it be like to stand on that particular bank, I wonder, and what weight rod and type of fly might I use there?

If you'd care to challenge that record, bring an 8 weight rod with a weight forward line and use lots of light brown clousers, crazy charlies, gotchas and mini puffs.

While you are learning, buy a 6 weight rod that will suffice to catch trout, bass and other small fish.

An 8-weight rod more than did the job.

I was using an eight-weight rod, so the fights were nothing dramatic.

I played him to the bank on my five-weight rod, then reached down to release him.

Two rods are suggested: an eight-weight rod is sufficient most of the time, but a 10-weight helps when the winds pick up.

Fly fishermen can also fish for bream using a 3- or 4-weight rod and matching line.

Choose a cane pole or light-weight rod & reel, 2-6 pound test line, and a small, barbed hook (sizes #6, 8, or 10) with a bobber (for fishing for shallow or suspended fish) attached 12 18 inches (30.5 45.7 cm) from the hook, with a small split-shot sinker attached 8 10 inches (20.3 25.4 cm) from the hook.

In the frenzy of marketing, golf balls are sold in such complex variety that golf's pro shops are not far behind fishing's fly shops, where line weights and rod weights and tip flex and reel seats are sold in so many forms for so many different capabilities and so many different situations that people's basements are forested with tackle.

Small flies are the rule, and three-weight rods are the tackle of choice.