Photo Essay

You've shared a very nice photo essay, thank you. Well done to your photographer and to you as well. Curious about your spey rod. Care to share a bit about it? Thanks.
Patrick
 
Buzzy said:
You've shared a very nice photo essay, thank you. Well done to your photographer and to you as well. Curious about your spey rod. Care to share a bit about it? Thanks.
Patrick
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Patrick, the contemporay build is a prototype James Reid 12 foot, 3 piece, 7wt. It's hand-planed, hollowed, medium flamed panda grass with spliced joints. Green agate stripping guides with light green wraps. It is my first bamboo rod and it has caught a fair share of steelhead.

Like most bamboo, it has a large grain window but I feel it shines with a scandi head between 410-430 grains. Attach a long leader and dryfly and she's in business.

I use to fish the rod year-round (even for winter steel) but it's now reserved for the months of April-July.

Cheers!

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SteelheadBee said:
"The benefit in this instance...?" ... the answer to this question required some introspection on my part.

The short answer: Maximizing the fun factor - It passed the time as we waited for our buddies to float down (they had the beer cooler) and I wanted to catch a steelhead on a freshly-tied Harry Lemire Grease Liner.

Long answer: Chasing the next level of satisfaction.
I suppose it stems from the same reason why some feel better when they catch a fish from a fly they tied themselves versus a store bought bug. Or maybe the same reasoning when a bloke ties a really well-proportioned fly and has more confidence in it even though fish usually could care less. Or like you mentioned, why some enjoy watching videos of guys waking up, pouring coffee, tying on the boots, hearing the crunch of gravel, stripping line off the reel, etc.

For me, there is an art and grace and challenge in fly fishing. It's what drew me to it (I was raised a conventional gear angler) - I enjoyed reading stories about fly fishing.

Eventually, as I learned to flyfish, I also learned to tie in hand, then I learned how to catch steelhead on dries and so on. For me, time on the water should be memorable...stories help make it memorable.

Cheers! I appreciated your question.
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I think your answer to the question is almost better than your original post. Pretty, pretty, pretty damn nice. Thanks.
 
Beautiful photo essay, nice looking cane - thanks for sharing.

cheers
 
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