Stalkermike wrote:
I had no idea some may have never heard that term for throwing.
I remember trying to cast large cased caddis patterns tied with lead under bodies and how dreadful that felt to cast.
I guess I fall into the old fart category too!
I've thrown,chucked, chunked, whizzed and slung rocks and such for well over 60 years but never hucked anything or seen it done nor heard of anyone doing it.
Huckster, as in peddler is as close as I've heard.
Since others seem to recognize the term, it must be that I have led a sheltered life? The young folks use a lot of new words invented with social media and fantasy lives/games etc. and have given many new definitions to existing words, is why I thought it might be generational.
Bead-heads are jigs, and jigs have a place in fishing; they can be most effective in some circumstances and though I sometimes use them, I don't really consider them "flies" either under a cork or on a mono rig- I guess that makes me an "old fart", "flies are made with fur, feathers and hair".
That said, I'm a fly rod fisherman more than a fly fisherman, so ...
In the right place I will and have fished jigs up to 1/16 oz. with my fly rod and I have trout jigs down to 1/100oz. 1/32oz are as heavy as is usually practical though. The beads are what ever size they are, mostly bought here or there randomly as an "I'll try that". I have three or four sizes of beads that I bought ten or twelve years ago and have no idea what material or size they are, if they seem to fit the hook and pattern that's the size I'd use.
If you roll cast or Belgian cast or use a wide loop you can chunk some heavy stuff and not damage a "vintage" 'glass rod. I used to use a lot of spoons and in this area live bait, like crawdads and minnows, was commonly fished with fly rods in days past.