Jon grew up fishing the lakes and streams of the Mountain West
This is especially useful in saltwater reels, which are sensitive to corrosion from sea salt, but is also an important factor in freshwater reels, which can pick up grit and other small particles
If you do that with the Echo Shadow II, you wont be disappointed
Find 4-5 deep cuts to fish, spend just 10-15 minutes at each one if youre not getting bites, and toss a suspending twitchbait, paddletail, or shrimp lure in there
Brian was casting one of my old Sage RPL+ two piece six weight rods with a size 12 brown drake comparadun of my own variety with a bead-head tan hares ear flashback nymph also of my own design, fished on a dropper about two and one half feet below the dry