How many rod outfits.?

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I just ordered an inexpensive 10ft rod to use as a dedicated indicator rig. I feel you don’t need a high end rod to chuck a loaded indicator rig 50ft, but that's another topic. This will allow me to use my quality 10 footer for my type 5 sinker. But, I realize I may also need a rod for an intermediate, and possibly another dry.
How many outfits do you experienced fisherman take out in your watercraft.? Do you strip down your indicator rig and use it when there's dry fly action.?...
 
When I used to fish lakes a lot, it was four but depended on what craft I was using.
Floater for dries, bobber rod, intermediate and some type of full sink.
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I tried 3 in the fishcat like Scott spoke of, but really two is more manageable for me. Always an indicator rod, and either a sink tip S3 or full sink S6, depending on depth I want, I just commit to that being the way I'll get 'em. I don't encounter that may situations where there are good risers on the lakes I fish.
 
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Can you use an intermediate line for dry fly? Maybe put on a floating polyleader...or maybe just use the emerger of that pattern?
 
3 in the tube (Indy, dry, intermediate). In the boat I add a full sink.

I’m not nimble enough to switch rigging when a hatch starts, so I carry extra outfits. Somehow, I am nimble enough to untangle them from one another.
 
Depends I guess. Usually two with the float tube if there is a hike involved. Type 6 and indicator rod, with Type 3 or intermediate on a spool to change out. If I add a third it will be a dry line. If I have my pram, I might have four rods or even 5. But depends on the lake. No need for a type 6 on Leech for example and I will definitely need a dry fly rod there. Some lakes I’ll leave the indicator rod at home and have two sinking rods.
 
Tom Butler said:
I tried 3 in the fishcat like Scott spoke of, but really two is more manageable for me. Always an indicator rod, and either a sink tip S3 or full sink S6, depending on depth I want, I just commit to that being the way I'll get 'em. Really, I don't encounter that may situations where there are good risers on the lakes I fish.
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I also tend to have two, but to be honest, I’m contemplating another rod purchase. o_O
 
Wetswinger said:
Can you use an intermediate line for dry fly? Maybe put on a floating polyleader...or maybe just use the emerger of that pattern?
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Last year I was fishing my 10' indicator rod on a dropoff when I noticed a few rise forms up on the shoal - this particular shoal runs from about 3' deep to 6' or so. I didn't have a dry fly rig with me so I stripped my bobber off, knotted on an emerger and long line "emerger" fished. It worked quite well aven if it wasn't ideal.

Three rods in my float tube, four in my pram.//Pat
 
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Wetswinger said:
I just ordered an inexpensive 10ft rod to use as a dedicated indicator rig. I feel you don’t need a high end rod to chuck a loaded indicator rig 50ft, but that's another topic. This will allow me to use my quality 10 footer for my type 5 sinker. But, I realize I may also need a rod for an intermediate, and possibly another dry.
How many outfits do you experienced fisherman take out in your watercraft.? Do you strip down your indicator rig and use it when there's dry fly action.?...
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Intermediate. Type 3, type 5 or 6, floater for indicator use.
 
On my kayak I carry three 10' fully rigged rods; a floater, an intermediate, and a medium sinker. I only actively fish one rod at a time.. Also carry a much faster sinking line on another reel...which I need to go ashore to safely change out the medium sink reel. A kayak afloat is no place to be stringing line...at least not for me.

Trout feeding behavior can change frequently throughout the day and I don't want to be fooling around rigging and de-rigging to adapt. Makes much easier to experiment with different patterns/presentations.
 
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I'm least likely to use a dries on a lake, so it's usually an indicator rig and a sinker of some type based on what I know of the lake depths (intermediate, type 3, or type 5/6). I don't enjoy 3 rods in a tube, or really even a pontoon, but if I can I'll do that too.--two types of sinkers plus the indi rig. I can always swap out the indi leader on the floater for a dry leader if I feel a real need to fish dries.
 
tkww said:
I'm least likely to use a dries on a lake, so it's usually an indicator rig and a sinker of some type based on what I know of the lake depths (intermediate, type 3, or type 5/6). I don't enjoy 3 rods in a tube, or really even a pontoon, but if I can I'll do that too.--two types of sinkers plus the indi rig. I can always swap out the indi leader on the floater for a dry leader if I feel a real need to fish dries.
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Two BC lakes I frequent often have a sudden mayfly emergence which often brings up the big boys and girls. Something like a callibaetis cripple (Quigley Cripple) is game on for surface takes. Sometimes this hatch is a half hour long, I don't want to lose time switching from an indicator rig to a more suitable dry fly rig so I have one rod with a 9-foot leader and an emerger already knotted up and ready to go - but then I'm in a pram on these lakes and there is room for that extra rig.
 
2 setups in my float tube…an indicator rig and whichever sinker I think will be best for the day. Usually that’s a type 5 but sometimes an intermediate. There’s almost always a hike involved when I use my tube so choices must be made.

In my boat I just bring everything.
 
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