What Weight Is Your "all Around" Rod?

[rhuseby]

Okay, I must have been dropped on my head at birth. I use a 7wt for over 90% of all my fishing everywhere. Punching flies into the wind with a lighter rod drives me nuts. When it's fairly calm I do use a 5wt. If you're worried about line splash, add on a couple of extra feet of tippet. Fishing Quirk Creek on the brookie project, there have been a lot of days that guys with 4 wts were cursing because the wind kept blowing their line into the willows. The ole 7 just hammered through and put the fly where I wanted it.

[MMAX]

9 foot 4 weight Orvis Western Spring Creek. I normally throw a DT 4 wt line but I have stepped up to a WF 5 wt and it casts that just fine too.

[osprey]

Most of the time I use a 7 wt 9ft Hardy Favorite, real soft action to protect 6X tippets but can still punch into the wind. If I'm out in the evening or cloudy day for dry flies I use an 8ft Sage 5 weight. Also have a thousand cracks in my 7 weight line, guess it's time for a new one.

[Taco]

All around western big water big wind rod? If I were buying one today I'd get a 6 wt, 9 1/2-10 ft ultra fast like a TFO TiCr, St Croix Ultra Elite or a Sage TCR. Get in habit of double haulin' and you can damn near fish in a hurricane.

[Guest bigbadbrent]

TCR's are the single hardest rod i've ever tried to cast....im sure once you're used to it u can throw RPG's outa the tip...but holy crap those things are unbeliveable fast..probably the fastest rod i've ever tried...overlining it would make it just crazy..but a tad on the expensive side (800 or so)

[Brownstone]

Sage Z-Axis 590 gets the most use..my big stick is a TiCr 790..for windy days and chuckin big streamers..