Originally Posted by Endrick

I'm not an expert but I have been quite successful over the past few years. For what it's worth here is waht I use .

My own view on the tackle is that the tackle should be as heavy as you can handle. The Single handed rod I use is a Steve Parton Imperator 10ft 11-13 which I use with an 11 wt floater and a 12wt medium fast sinker. If you use big air resistant flies in a wind then you will realise that the heavy line is a distinct advantage. The weight of the line is determined by the flies. Big flies = heavy line

My last outings have been with double handers. I may switch on a permanent basis. The big rods cast much further and handle the big flies (up to 9 inches long in my case) so easily it makes me wonder why I use with a single hander. Certainly on big waters I'll be using the double handers from now on.

The flies I use are barbless and I use a release tool made by myself based on the Ketchem release tool.

The trace material is Proleader.

Good luck

Malcolm