Just wanted to give a Little Love to 3 weights, which is probably my favorite weight to fish with. I have a shorty bamboo 2-3 that I love for small trout streams and bluegill fishing and my dad has a whole quiver of various sage 3 weights some 8' some shorter back home in Miami, which are great for small bass, peacocks, other exotics, I even caught big carp and baby tarpon on 3 weights. Generally I find the weight of the rod determines what size fly you can cast and impacts distance/wind, and while backbone is nice for pulling a fish out of heavy cover, you can catch big fish on light rods and little can still fish feel awesome. All of that is to say, I pick the rod based on what size fly I want to be able to throw and how far a cast i think i will need to make. I think a 3 wt makes a great small stream rod, and if I need to chuck something bigger than it can handle I usually break out my 5 wt.
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