Winston WT 8′ 6″, 4wt build

The dry fly setup

Com­ponents used for this build:

• Blank: Wins­ton WT Trout
  
• Length: 8’6″
• Aftma: #4
• Sec­tions: 3 pcs
• Color: Wins­ton green
• Action: medium
• Reel seat: Bel­lin­ger ULTB660N
• Spa­cer: black ash burl
• Gui­des: Hop­kins and Hol­lo­way snakes & Fuji CLNSG stri­ping guide
• Thread: Gude­brod dark green 5896

This medium action rod bends pro­gres­si­vely into the handle when fight­ing big fish, i use this rod for trout and gray­ling fis­hing on small to medium size water. After some tes­ting of dif­fe­rent lines i was pretty happy with the Lee Wulff TT in 4 weight. The Wins­ton WT (stands for »Wins­ton Trout« or »Wins­ton Tra­di­tio­nal«) series is not picky to line up but you have to make sure you do not over line it. You will loose the fine pre­sen­ta­tion and smooth cas­ting stroke skills of this rod if you do. I pre­fer to fish this rod with lea­ders up to 10 foot inclu­ding the tip if you go for lon­ger lea­ders it is not easy to strai­gh­ten them up. This rod is one of my favo­rite rods to fish the dry fly on medium cas­ting range.