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Middle gear 3.8:1:The everyday workhorse ratio enough speed to stay tight on a circling fish, enough torque to keep the pressure on

Because it floats, you can pause it over cover and let bass rise up to smash it a presentation that often gets bigger fish

Essentially, youre choosing between better performance and ease of use

A large bass fly with a pan fish fly dropper (attached by a foot of tippet) A whole different approach from the bass-bluegill lap is to offer the bass one fly and the bluegills anotherall on one rig.* I sometimes put up a modest-size (too big for the lap) Skip's Fusion Bug, then tie a foot of tippet to its bend, and on the tip of that trailing tippet tie an SMP (a heavy lap-size oneit can't drown the big bug from which it hangs)