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Post by cfvickers on Jan 15, 2010 17:37:06 GMT -5
This is where I am really needing to be.  But the dad gum water won't go down!!!!! Be glad when the lake levels are down and I can warm up the fly rods. |
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Post by ET on Jan 17, 2010 15:39:11 GMT -5
I've got to ask what species that trout is because I have never seen such yellow fins displayed in sunlight.
To me fly-fishing is not just fishing but an art in itself. Of course there is the art of tying flies that accompanies fly-fishing. Never really got into it yet but enjoy watching a person using a fly rod and precisely putting that fly in a desired location for presentation to a fish. To me each cast is poetry in motion.
Ed
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Post by cfvickers on Jan 17, 2010 23:59:12 GMT -5
Its a brown trout female. It was caught in late winter last year about 20-30 minutes into daylight, that is where the yellow came from. it was a 19 inch brown so it was huge for the rod I was using, it took a solid twenty minutes to land. The rod is a 00 wt. Sage that I built last winter. This was the second fish I caught on it.
Casting is why I fly fish, because it is beautiful to watch and takes a ton of skill and grace. All movements have to flow smoothly and when you are even decent at it, just watching the line roll over perfectly is a reward in its self.
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Post by youp50 on Jan 18, 2010 19:33:40 GMT -5
We need very heavy weight flyrods this time of year. The weights on the streamers need to be very heavy to get down to the fish. At the bare minimum I am very jealous of your trout fishing opportunity.
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Post by KerryB on Jan 18, 2010 21:40:34 GMT -5
We need very heavy weight flyrods this time of year. The weights on the streamers need to be very heavy to get down to the fish. At the bare minimum I am very jealous of your trout fishing opportunity. Those brownies are just beautiful aren't they! I have a beauty hanging on my kitchen wall that i should photograph and share with you too. I love the looks of your rod and reel! That olive green color on the rod is very attractive. That is a very classy looking reel.......what is it? I like the reel seat as well.......what wood would that be? Looks like it has a downlocking nickel silver lock ring. You appear to do very nice work and i love the ultralite fly rods and reels. I have a tiny little rod from Abercrombie & Fitch that is likely 40-50 years old. It has been many years since i have pulled it out of its case, but as i recall, it is only 5 1/2 or 6ft long and it came with a pretty little Hardy reel called a flyweight or something like that. Tiny, tiny! These little outfits are mentioned in a tackle book that i have and the writer talks about frequenting A&F when he was in NY decades ago and practice casting one of these into the sleeping bag section of the store on a regular basis! ;D Maybe i'll pull it out and get a photo of it along with my brownie for you guys to see!  Your photo makes me want to head to the local trout waters! Very nice! |
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Post by cfvickers on Jan 18, 2010 22:13:02 GMT -5
I would love to see the picture, I have read about that rod.
Thanks for the compliments on the rod. There are several mistakes on it so my work wasn't flawless. The seat is black ash burl, the hardware is gold plated nickel silver and the reel is actually pretty cheap and too large for the rod, but I haven't been able to find exactly what I want so it will do for now. It is very slick and will reel in 15 feet of line with a tap of the handle. The rod is a 7'10" Sage TXL and I love it. I used very small gold single foot guides and that significantly improved the sensitivity and feel over a factory rod. The seat made it about .2 oz. heavier but in the right place. I got the grip and wood insert from REC and the insert was custom made to fit the hardware by them. I set out to build it exactly the way I wanted sparing no expense and did not, still I came out almost 200.00 less than the cost of a factory rod on the same blank. I wanted it to look classy, very nice but not overly gaudy. I think I achieved that.
I have a 9 wt. that i fish streamers with this time of year in high water but when possible this is what I use.
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Post by ET on Jan 19, 2010 19:52:23 GMT -5
I would love to see the picture, I have read about that rod. Thanks for the compliments on the rod. There are several mistakes on it so my work wasn't flawless. The seat is black ash burl, the hardware is gold plated nickel silver and the reel is actually pretty cheap and too large for the rod, but I haven't been able to find exactly what I want so it will do for now. It is very slick and will reel in 15 feet of line with a tap of the handle. The rod is a 7'10" Sage TXL and I love it. I used very small gold single foot guides and that significantly improved the sensitivity and feel over a factory rod. The seat made it about .2 oz. heavier but in the right place. I got the grip and wood insert from REC and the insert was custom made to fit the hardware by them. I set out to build it exactly the way I wanted sparing no expense and did not, still I came out almost 200.00 less than the cost of a factory rod on the same blank. I wanted it to look classy, very nice but not overly gaudy. I think I achieved that. I have a 9 wt. that i fish streamers with this time of year in high water but when possible this is what I use. Ah another rod builder. Been a quite few years since I built one and feel like doing another in the near future. My last build was on a graphite fly rod blank, 9-footer that I converted into a spinning rod. Single legged guides of course. Could really cast small lures and spinners out a ways. I also really loved the sensitivity feel for drifting salmon eggs for rainbow. No horsing any good sized fish and had to play them out. Need to do a little digging for my rod building equipment, roller stands, thread tree stand and barbecue rotisery for when appling slow curing epoxy to finish the thread windings around the guides. That was a lot of fun. Ed |
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Post by KerryB on Jan 19, 2010 20:58:20 GMT -5
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Post by cfvickers on Jan 19, 2010 22:59:12 GMT -5
Yep. I need that. I have come across Hardy Flyweight reels before and never had a picture that compared it with an average sized reel. I will be searching for one. I have seen them on Ebay for at least as reasonable as other hardy reels. Which was completely unreasonable to my ex.
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Post by KerryB on Jan 20, 2010 18:17:21 GMT -5
I have seen them on Ebay for at least as reasonable as other hardy reels. Which was completely unreasonable to my ex. ;D ;D |
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Your photo makes me want to head to the local trout waters! Very nice! 
Enjoy! 
