Thread: New fly fisher - reel advice

Originally Posted by Three O'Three

One of the boys at the local H&F convinced me to try using flies with a spin rod. Anyone do this? What are the best rig setups? Mostly fishing the Waikato between Ngaruawahia where fish stay out in the middle of the river passed the duck weed, and where it gets quite deep and fish seem to stay close the rocks along the banks in Hamilton.

A bubble or float, with a couple nymphs, one heavy, another unweighted, cast just behind the weed line, works well, weighted nymph takes line down, the smaller light weight drift in the current behind the weighted nymph.
or a couple split shot 1/2m above a wooly bugger, cast and swing in the current,