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I've always thought "multi-filament" was marketing speak for "braided". You can't make a braid without using multiple strands/filaments. the only reason I didn't suggest that line is the short length of level line that you can cut out of it. <30' per the profile image. Oh, and in a 5/6 weight it might be smallish in diameter. But the alternatives are getting fewer. on Amazon

All them boats are obnoxious. Let them use row boats.

I suspect being in that boat makes you 10' tall. I think the last time I actually fished in a boat was maybe 1983 or 4. I just don't have enough time to mess with a boat. or maybe it's patience I don't have.

I guess I'm not as tall as you, I have no trouble reaching the water with a 7' rod. I see what you are saying though and I learned from the old guys way back then to keep the rod tip in the water when stripping wets. I probably don't pause as long as you do when stripping from the sound of it.

I sure don't follow that creep, but, I don't fish out boats so I wouldn't know. Maybe you can tell me what you do to prevent the creep with the long rod?

no boat but if there was I'd might do it siting down in which case I'd opt for a longer lighter rod. . I reckon that the deeper you are in the water the more you need rod length just to stay clear of the water. now in any rod up position a 9' rod has 2' more slack line than a 7' rod, so I don't follow your logic. unless your are dapping the fly, then reach counts just as in Tenkara or nymphing. Why are you hunched over? If you think about levers and how a long lever lets you lift more than a short lever, you'll see that the long rod gives the line mass greater force against your body with every stroke than a short rod does. Of course a young guy never thinks about stress and worn out body parts, and there was a time I didn't either. Try a thing, hold a long broom stick like a fly rod and use the far end to lift a bucket of scrap or other weight like lifting the line off the water, put the load down; then hold the broomstick so that only half the length is between you and the loaded bucket, the short stick will strain you less, it will create less torque on your arm/hand/shoulder. It's a cantilever beam problem where the farther the load is from the end support the greater the stress is on the support.

because it's a bunch easier to cast 30-45 minutes with a 9' #5 or 4 1/2 hours with 7 1/2' # 7 result in about the same amount of pain. I had quit fishing a few years ago until I bought a yard sale 7' 6" and found out how much easier it is. I don't ever need to cast more than 40'-50' anyway, so why would I need a longer rod? I still give the 9' rods a little play occasionally and always end up done for day pretty quickly.

This guy just started his holiday sale, he said "Use code: HOLIDAY22 for 15% off site wide." Korean made rods I think with latest tech available gets good reviews on another forum. https://www.taylorflyfishing.com/

"An abundance of caution"

Sage doesn't make anything I'm interested in and hasn't in a long time, maybe when Green still owned it. I think I'd like a McFarland or a Stickman though and they run a little higher than the box store rods. Who makes a 7' 7wt? or 7' 6wt?

I think H&H had gone to pot even before '19, they show products like line but when you try to buy it's "no product found" Fly line i was looking for iirc Bob Marriott's, Bill Kiene's, Dette's Bear's Den

These are made of floating fly line https://www.amazon.com/RIO-Kahuna-Strike-Indicator-Chartreuse/dp/B07HSY6VR7

https://www.murraysflyshop.com/products/murrays-fly-shop-indicator-3-per-pack?_pos=4&_sid=82022f6a9&_ss=r I knew I had seen some shop selling the cut flyline pieces, finally remembered where. I guess if Murray can't get the SA line it must be hard find. He doesn't say they float, but you can ask.

I very rarely fish RRSP before noon, I do like Plamer flies, but I use Spiders too. My rule is no more than two materials and no wings.

Same same to me, name wise. Both four letter words. But Sage is a production rod and I don't think Epic is yet, might be a better comparison with Mike McFarland or Chris Barclay or Graywolf?

It may be that no one knows the answers to your inquiries. I know I don't. I could guess, but why? My suggestion is to contact the fishery biologist in the Neosho MDC office and see if he can help with the species of fish found there. I was going to give you link to the watershed inventory that covers that stream but MDC has that link messed up.

Not that much more than Sage prices of ~$1000, and FarBank didn't advertise a Black Friday deal, or GLoomis $900-$1200. I haven't shopped new flyrods for a long time other than a glance or two in passing at the fly shops. but, with inflation what it is those prices seem comparable to 1977 top rod prices of $150-$200. I own about 15-20 old fly rods so not really looking, but what is a new "best rod, best price"?

Up to 50% off sounds like a good deal. They actually get pretty good reviews on other forums, but I still have some 1970s rods so not really in the market. If I was looking though I might be interested in one of those Fast glass blanks.

for the flyrodders- https://www.epicflyrods.com/collections/back-friday-fly-fishing-deals

I found wild trout and native brookies just as easy, perhaps easier since they aren't pounded every single day. And I have yet to find something that would not get a take if twitched just so in the right place; that said I've had a lot of skunked days too.

From my view rain is the thing that hit quail the hardest, other than fesque. Wet nests chill the eggs to death from the bottom and wet anytime within two weeks after hatching will chill the chicks to death. I had a lot more predators when I had quail than I have now and in 40 years or so that I was aware of them the predators never kept the quail numbers down at all. Three very wet years in a row took out all my quail and turkeys both. Of course that's just opinion based on observation, and it may be the armadillos that wiped the birds out because they showed up right about that same time and multiplied rapidly.

Ain't bluestem one of those native grasses that we are encouraged to grow?

I found it easier to get rid of multifloral rose than to eradicate fescue.

OD green? wool?

Fescue prohibits birds by forming turf. Birds need bare dirt. And fescue wet with heavy dew means the birds are swimming with the chicks drowning.