Tom Kirkman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bill, > > At what distance? You're leaving the biggest part > of the equation unstated. When you see a rod rated > as a "5-weight rod," you can be sure that it loads > easily and casts well with that line at the > distance the manufacturer intended. What you don't > know, is wh
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Heres a good place to start...
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Just ran across this looking for heavy glass rods. Have a read:
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I would tend to believe that a glass 9 weight rod would absolutely kill your shoulder after a full day of fishing. In my opinion the rod would be down right heavy in the hand, and you would be battling the rods inertia all day making for a miserable on the water experience. I would look for the highest modulus medium action graphite composite (maybe even boron) I could find and then go from there
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Sorry, I may not have explained myself correctly. I am not refering to rod/tip wobble. What I am refering to is the line "wobble" at the point when the fly line starts to turn over. Like a wagging tale before the turnover. Allthough the line will track exacrly where you want it, at the tme of the turn over the last 3 or 4 feet of line dont turn over smoothly. Kind of like holding a sh
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Curious as to what rod attributes seem to make a fly line track smoother than others. I find with ulta fast blanks the fly line tends to wobble a bit more at the line tip than in softer blanks. Is this more of a response to the line speed or are there other factors that come into play?
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Very odd to hear. Its been probably 7 or 8 months since ive dealt with them, but have always had nothing but top notch service......
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Just looking for one or two reviews before pulling the trigger......anyone yet?
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What is the specific wood? I cant imagine any wood taking that long. Especially something as small as a reel seat. Whats he doing ? Growing the tree? Ha ha.. Sounds to me like the project was put in line, and never really looked at until it came up for production. P.S. As far as the 13 months goes, I had an uncle that waited well into 1 1/2 years to finally get his rod. Of course this was fro
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straightest axis over spline for me too.....
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bill boettcher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It is a good place to keep up to date as long as > one can weed out the baloney Ha ha ha!!! So true with all forums.
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I've tried to pull some single foot guides (no thread locks) out of an old build with some pliers. You gotta twist, turn, pull then twist turn and pull harder to get them out. The only way you MIGHT get one pulled out is if your line wrapped around one with an extremely large game fish on like a tarpon running full boar. I dont even thinka big salmon could do it. Youre rod would break first if it
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I stumbled across this website today, and I must say it looks like a very interesting concept. What do you think? Tom feel free to remove it if I violated the sites rules.
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I assume its got more do do with marketing than anything else. Czech nymphing is nothing more than short line drifting (with weighted nymphs) most times without an indicater. Longer rods supposedly give you the advatage of keeping the nymphs further out from the body with a greater ability to mend line. I would guess most are probably fast actions for added feel (allthough I have not tried any o
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Todd Kreikamp Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I know the NFC blanks are designed to be trimmed > so it might take some tinkering to find that fast > action tip you are looking for. No issue with > warranty being voided either. How would trimming a tip result in a faster action? I could be wrong but I find it hard to believe that NFC blanks
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I'm thinking about building a couple of Tom Morgan glass fly blanks for a fund raiser for TUDAR (trout unlimited driftless area restoration) in a couple months. I figured a couple of glass rods would be perfect for the small, clear spring creeks in wisconsin that the benefit is for. I was wondering if anyone has built on these yet as they are pretty pricy and was wondering if anyone had an opin
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Ran across this and though it would be an interesting read for some of you fly rod guys in regaurd to fly rod action and CCS. Seems to make good sense. Wondering what others think.
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Looks like I'll be having to buy each one of these to get an opinion....lol. No more wigglers and tryers at all?
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Lets hers some comments on the two new entries into the fly blank arena. NFC and the new PacBay Quickline blanks. Anybody get to try them at the show or give them the ole wiggle test?
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MHX!!! My favorite. I'm all fly though. Looking forward to building the new PacBays too.
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Do a google image search for "pink fishing rod"...all kinds of ideas.
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Mudhole has pink blanks..... oops should have read the entire post...sorry
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I'm curious as to what if any Batson blanks are still made in the USA ?
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I know only some of these are available so far, but was wondering if anyone has had a chance to try one yet. I got a feeling they may be very nice. They got the CCS numbers posted on the PacBay website, and I'm liking what I see. For instance the 904-4= 1.3oz butt .340 tip 3.5 ern 5.5 aa 72 freq 86 NICE!!!
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I completely agree with Tom here. A mid modulus fly rod at those weights can feel incredibly heavy and cumbersum. Imagine youre forearm exorbing the deeper bending heavier (low modulus) of a 12wt rod for 8 hours. Brutal!! Go high end.... For me, even a 5wt bamboo hurts after an 8 hour day.
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Gross miscalculation on Penns part!! Imagine the returns they will be facing......Ouch!! I heard recently about a similar thing happening with Echo fly rod seats.
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i think he means you can not buy a fatory rod made with MHX blanks.
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My vote is for MHX. Fantastic blank I would put up against ANY proggressive fast actions.
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Exactly Tom. When I take my inexperienced friends steelhead fishing. They inevitably ask why I am getting more hits/fish. 9 out of 10 times I tell them that they need to take up the slack in the line as so they can feel the fish take the fly. I tell them they need to keep enough tension in the line so they can "feel" the fly ticking the bottom on a drift. It IS possible to feel the bott
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Steve Gardner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Larry; > "I think its quite rediculous to think that a rod > will pick up vibration from a slack line." > > Why do you think that's ridiculous? > What do you base that assumption on? Vibrations can not work their way up a slack line. Impossible. Take a 2 foot long peice of mono b
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