American Made Fly Blanks

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Re: American Made Fly Blanks

Posted by: Jeffrey Wolfanger (---.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net)

Date: February 07, 2006 10:14PM

Spencer Phipps Wrote:
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> I'd go to a few shops, test cast some rods, and
> build on that blank. St Croix, Lamiglas, G Loomis,
> Talon, Thomas & Thomas, some Winston, Graphite
> USA, Shikari, Sage, R B Meiser and C.F. Burkheimer
> are US blank manufactures found on this site. Also
> some of the larger shops like Angler's Workshop
> carry their line of blanks built by one of the
> above.
> Really depends on what you you're looking for, the
> sponsors to the left are there to help.

Spencer-

Thanks for your input. Ok there are a lot of choices. I want to build my first fly rod, and I just getting into Fly Fishing. I fish mostly inshore and offshore saltwater. I will be saltwater flyfishing 99% of the time, rather than freshwater. I think most likely it is appropriate that I go with an 8 or 9 weight. I want to get a nice blank, made in the US, that isn't priced too high, but still real nice. Basically upper middle end. I am thinking that I would like a 2 or 4 piece.

Thanks,
Jeffrey

I appreciate everyone else who took time to respond.....

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