In a world where it seems like everyone is fishing beads or throwing huge intruders and bunny leeches with skagit tips and T-11, I've been fishing my 12-14' Sharpes bamboo rods and long belly lines with 15' type III tips and size 6-8 shrimp flies and general practitioners and finding this...
I was told tonight that Anacortes bamboo rodmaker Tom Fulk died a couple weeks ago. Tom built brisk 5,6 and 7 weight rods, mostly 7-8'. He named each rod for a particular lake or stream. Here's my 7' 5 weight Tom Fulk along the cascades stream he named it for...
Talking tapers with Tom in...
3 piece bamboo rods fit nicely in the Alaska airlines overhead bin and my Sharpes 12-14' rods are three piece but I prefer 2 piece otherwise. The extra ferrule adds weight and my guess is it makes the rod less lithe.
A friend and I stopped by Mark Frey's place to pick up an Edwards fly rod on our way back from the Cowlitz. Mark showed us 30 reels which he was given recently...Hardy, Meisselach and a whole bunch of Young reels. I ended up with the Young. My friend bought some Hardys.
Mark has a Granger...
I've come into possession of what I think is a 3" youngs pattern 1 reel. Very simple design. It is marked Army and Navy Surplus, Victoria St. London. Plan to line it up for my 6'9" 4 weight constable.
The reel came loaded with a level silk line. Have any of you fished the old silk...
Congrats on your new rods. The 8'6" Phillipson powerpakt is a versatile river or lake rod. Mine is rated HDH which is 6 weight but does just fine with a 5 weight or 6 weight triangle taper or 406 double taper. I used my 8'6" Phillipson last year to cast wet flies on a cutthroat beaver pond in...