Fishing big, wind resistant rigs like a “Chub/Rub” combo, (a size #8 Chubby Chernobyl dry with a size #8 rubber legs nymph behind it), is far easier with a 6-weight rod. For nymph fishing, 6-weights work better for chucking a two-nymph combo, like a #8 weighted rubber legs, with a smaller tungsten bead head dropper. The 6-weight rods also have the power to pick up lots of line to make an immediate re-cast, as you often do while fishing out of a drift boat, (should your first cast be off target). If you want to chuck some medium-sized steamers with a sink tip, a 6-weight rod makes this easy. They are also better rods for fishing a variety of nymph rigs, especially when you are using multiple flies, some weight like split-shot, and indicators. 6-weight rods have more guts to make fishing larger dry flies like hoppers a breeze, yet the best 6-weights will still have the delicacy to fish small dries on light tippets like 5X and 6X. In order to refine our conclusions, we decided not to publish all our notes and scores on these other 30 rods, but if you want more info on these rods, just call us or e-mail us and we’ll be happy to provide this information.Ī lot of anglers love to use a 5-weight as their all-around rod, but a 6-weight can make more sense in a lot of circumstances. In our objective charts that give overall weight, swing weight and country of origin, you’ll see a chart for the Best in Test, giving the top 11 rods, and the other we called the Best of the Rest, which shows all the rods we cast. It just so happened that the Hardy Shadow, our best mid-priced rod, at $389.95, finished inside the top ten, so we added our best inexpensive rod – the Echo Carbon XL, at $169.00. To determine the top ten, we selected the rods that performed best at a combination of 30, 50 and 75 feet. Rather than have this many rods in the total write up, we decided to hone in on the ten best 6-weight rods, along with what we felt was the best mid-priced rod, and the best inexpensive rod. Several of these were the same basic 9 foot six weights, but with a fighting butt.
We ended up with a total of 41 rods to cast. We wanted to take a look at and cast all the best 6-weight rods we could get from a variety of the top manufacturers. Our last 6-weight Shootout was back in 2016, and since then many manufacturers have introduced some great new rods, utilizing new materials, new tapers, and in some instances, new components.
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