Hello. I have a question. I am experimenting with a rod build. Now I have been around reading a long time but am very short on actual practical experience. I have a spare 10' two piece full flex 3wt rod blank. A person from down under said you need a lot of flex in a two handed rod. So I decided to make my 3wt a spey. He said it could be done. He refers to it and the wee TS ....wee trout spey
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Aren't the foot of the reel that sets on the rod...mounted to the reels with screws? Can't you just change the reel foot?
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Just my 2 cents Andrew...and it is just a little food for thought. A friend and I were fishing and talking building rods. My friend is a 35 year custom glass sculpturer/craftsman. Not blowing glass. Actually using the glass rods to melt down and be creative with it. He used to also have a custom rod building business but it grew to where it affected his glass work and so he stopped building rods.
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Try again. A typical Native Apache thrown in for comparison. That about 13". Bearded one is I.
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Well, will try some more. I know I am being put to the test here. Pls show pics of 30" trout?...yeah...prove it. Well, I cannot. Those are hearsay. But the man who told me the biggest is Ken McGowan; his name is mentioned in the book written by Charles Meck and John Rohmer and I think it was titled "Fishing Trout Streams of Arizona". You can go to John's fly shop website....and ord
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Second try at posting pics per request. The other day I tried and a link was locked up in my "copy/paste/ feature. I was unable to copy anything new into the right click copy feature. I thought I was posting pics and looked at the five I had done and they were all the same....and not a pic but a link I sent to someone else. I think it is clear now. So trying again.
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Thanks Paul and thanks for the invite. I usually get rebuffed on my ideas and I just let it ride and do what I want anyway. Our fly club has an outing once a month on some lake and the ALL use some type of inflatable. Either a float tube, pontoon float tube, or pontoon boat. I had an 8' Water Skeeter as well as pontoon float tubes. I found it so inefficient to have to put on my stocking feet
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Paul, Yup. Thanks to you as well. What you DO NOT know is I never saw your post until this very moment. It must have been coming in while I was typing that long winded last post of mine....and posted....probably while I was typing. I hit the "Post Message" and clicked off...went outside to try to protect firewood I have gathered from the storms that came in. I don't have my wood sto
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Phil, appreciate your input...but I know all the things you said already. And Joe just said everything I was going to say! I have no intention of fishing for big trout with a three weight fly rod. As Joe said...and I said earlier...."weight" rating of single hand rods and spey's to not relate evenly. Oh, just remember you said you fish spey so you know this already. That is my whole po
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Perhaps try de-natured alcohol to clean it. This does not leave any residue. However, will it work for you? I dunno. Just a thought
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Phil, Glad you made the above post. I was indeed offended as I saw not only no help for me and my question...I saw no benefit to me at all about answering my question. And so I was wondering why you even bothered to post? In fact I saw absolutely not even any INTENT t be helpful! But your last post took all the mad clear out of me. I fish my stream with lot's of other rods. And smaller
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Since when does one have to NEED something to buy it? Never heard of less than 6wt spey? I have been advised elsewhere on this site to purchase the Bob Meiser 12'-6" 3/4/5 spey rod. I cannot afford to do that or I would. (correction...I remember now...it was on the Spey Clave website) However I just looked at his site and did not see a 3/4/5. Probably the one that I THINK I saw that said 3/
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I know spey rod designations of 8/9 for example do not correlate directly to a single handed 8 or nine weight rod due to the skagit heads and spey lines. Question is....what spey rod would one want to build for inland trout? The 6wt spey blanks previously mentioned? Or...say a 3/4wt spey blank, or a 4/5? As mentioned by Mr. Hartlage in a previous thread....he plans to build a 6wt spey for ste
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Everyone...my friends...tell me the lightest reel on any fly rod the better. I do not agree with that. However, I guess I should test it out. I have plenty of rods and reels to find out with. I will say this though. I think I am with Mr. Terry Goode on this one. I like a balanced fly rod and reel. I prefer it balance in the middle of my grip. I have an 11' 6wt that I really like. However fish
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If you put a grip on with Gorilla Glue you will NEVER be able to sweat it off or remove it. It will be hack saw time!
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I have a large sheet of blueboard insulation that blew up into my yard. No idea who it belongs to. About a 5' square. A spare piece that blew in from some construction somewhere I guess. I have been intending for a long time now to build a foam grip out of it. Just haven't done it yet. Looks like someone will beat me to it. I wll be interested in any results. Perhaps I should throw this scrap pie
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I don't know Roger. You are currently working on "my" fly rod for me....and it definitely is not the norm. What do YOU think about IT? Well, on second thought, it is just not the norm. Not about new products, material, etc.....so I guess it does not apply here. I am not very knowledgeable to give you a good debate on this subject. I know I do not like snake guides, single foot guide
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I've gotten some from flea markets. Usually damaged in some way or missing guides. Dealers will take $1 for them.
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Thanks everyone. End of curiosity. Question answered very adequately. Thanks again. Jim
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Chris and Tom, You both have it right. The line seems to be so stiff at that point that it bows. And Tom that is the latter case in your statement. It is just the nature of the beast so to speak. Just the rub of the green I take it. Thanks If I get a chance I will take a pic....but I think you guys have a pretty good picture of it in your mind already....by the way you have described it.
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I occasionally am dealing with my fly rod and fishing and notice that the line, when idle is not going straight from the last line guide out the tip and hanging down. It is strung through the guides properly...but comes out of the last guide and arches up over the rod, but comes back down and goes out the tip like it should. Sometimes when I am fighting tangles it makes me wonder if it is tangled
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One man's feist is another man's fodder. I understand all the above. However I was fishing with my 11' 6wt rod and using the 6wt reel that came on the Orvis Green Mtn 6wt combo outfit from Wal-Mart. Fishing a lake from a boat. Within a 1/2 hour my wrist began to tire. NOT from casting....from holding the tip up while stripping in the fly. Soooo...as it says above...you can suit yourself. I un
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Not that it adds to anything...but I just use the same size single foot line guides all the way from the stripper through the tip. Yes, I am saying I don't stagger the guides, and yes I am saying I use the same single foot guide for the tip. It is the same size ID as all the other guides. They are just all the same size. No worries about matching the tubular tip top.
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Curious why you are interested in distance casting. Can't you cast far enough to catch fish now? Not how I wanted to put it. Sounds smart alecky, but not. A serious question.....why do you want to cast farther? I do NOT want below my wrist to be heavier than the tip, and therefore the butt goes down while in my hand and the tip goes UP. I want the rod to balance in my hand. I have tried boaf ways
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I am not experienced and don't have a TN handle that has been sleeved and coated. But thinking that internally it is cork....and has give....I think you could simply mount the reel with one nylon tyrap. You would hold the tyrqp behind the rod as you look directly at it with the reel sitting on it. Face the feed side of the tyrap head toward you sticking up behind the rod.....like ET looking at yo
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Thanks to you guys I found someone to do the repair very reasonable. Already shipped rod off in a tube to him. Thanks also Bill for providing your website. Added it to my favorites list. Jim
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Thanks you all for the help and the messages of information. I have tried to find some other blank I haven't built yet...and just replace the whole tip but have found nothing that fits onto my currend rod's midsection tip. Sean thanks. I was wondering if I could pay to have it done. I am kind of between a rock and a hard spot. I don't have a lot of discretionary money. I thought about having
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I don't know how I broke my rod. I was on the floor on the carpet with my 3 piece rod....rigging the line through the guides while the rod was still in three pieces lying on the floor. You see I do this because first of all it is an 11' rod and I have a ceiling fan..... But secondly it fits nicely in a cheap gun case from Wal Mart. I can lay the three sections in it all rigged up with a fly. W
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Nuther idea is to use a single foot guide and wrap it on as a tip top. I don't even worry about correct size tube anymore. I just use a single foot guide and wrap it on.
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I like slip rings on cork and use them. No probs. If you want a temporary mont for your reel use a long piece of nylon tyrap. Just do a cris cross patern over the reel foot, start on one side..go around the cork, go over the other reel foot side and back under the cork, and cross back over the the original foot side and feed the tip into the head and pull tight. Then use pliers to grasp the tag e
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