I am new this this forum, I have been enjoying reading the various posts for the past couple of weeks. There are a number of different fly rods in my collection, a 4 wt. being the lightest I have ever fished or casted. I am curious about the capability of 1 wt. Could someone give me an idea as to the types of flies and sizes they fish on their 1 wt. ? Also, anyone's experience or input on the new Orvis Superfine 1 wt. would be appreciated.
Thanks

I was tossing a #8 Black Nose Dace yesterday with a wind without issue. I would stop short of a #10 BH Bugger though. My normal fly is a #12 Cat's Whisker tied on a TMC 200R.

#12 beadhead is about the heaviest. You need to keep the leader and tippet short if you are going to use flies larger than a 14. Don

Thanks for all of your replies, I appreciate your help.
Ken

I've been fishing with a one weight (Orvis) for trout pretty much exclusively for the past 7 years. I fish a 12 -14 foot leader (starts out at 14 and slowly works it's way down due to fly changes and such). I fish one of two flies about 90% of the time. Either a size 10 or 12 rather bushy dry, or a size 8 2xl bead head. On occasion I will throw a size 8 Chernobyl ant or some other odd ball stuff. Since I'm really not interested in fishing anything larger than a size 8, I don't know if that's the limit or not, but I do know I don't have any problem fishing a size 8 on down.

Realistically, I would say one day out of ten I have problems caused by wind. My home river is large, so I can almost always get positioned so I can cast and fish. I will also say that I like to fish riffles and runs, so I typically only fish maybe 30 feet of line.

My home river is probably 125 feet across, but you find you are alot more successful if you fish it as if it were a series of 20 foot wide streams running next to each other.