Fishing Equipment Recommendations?

[Eztouche]

How about sharing your experience on best rigs for mountain stream fishing?
Fly Fishing: rod length and line weight, best baits"
Spin/Spincast : Line weight, best lures etc?

[kayakrat]

Fly Rods wise: 9ft. 5wt covers alot of species. For a good fight Sage makes a 000wt. Hard as hell to cast but fun for sunfish and bluegill. Wooly buggers, crazydads, popping bugs, or anything else that looks totally unedible. Terrestrials are great for the smaller panfish.

Spin/Spincast: ........what's that??

[Jim Krueger]

For 'ultra light spinning gear' we like 6 lb. line rigged with 1/8Oz. lead head hook, outfitted with a 'pumpkinseed green' "Tiny Brush Hog', essentially a lizard-like rubber bait. We have the best luck with this set-up and bait for Small Mouth Bass. For a little later on, we use the same rod, reel, line combination, but with an even smaller, 1/16 Oz. lead head combined with a small rubber 'tube jig', usually brown&Chartruse for Bream and Crappie. Hope this helps.
If you are float-fishing a fast moving 'mountain stream' do fish the deep parts of the pools, but do stop and get out of your boat on occassion to wade-fish behind the boulders within the rapids for Small Mouth, otherwise a person can miss some of the better opportunities as the river will carry you by too quickly.

Jim