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Took my 9' 6 weight Wright and McGill WaterSeal bamboo rod to a western washington lake Friday. Last year when Greg Armstrong and I fished the lake it was very cold and wet... This year it was sunny and mid 60's. The recently stocked rainbows were less active but I managed to bring 5 to...

Took my annual trip to the eastern washington desert. Brought a 9' spliced Sharpes and a Sharpes 88. Both 6 weights. The rainbows were cooperative and hard fighting. Got half my fish on sinking or intermediate lines with an Olive Carey Special or Olive marabou damsel or olive wet fly. The...

I promised ParaAdams some Grey Ghosts for some bamboo rod maintenance. He did a great job on the wraps so I had to carry out my end of the bargain. First you glue the jungle cock to the silver pheasant cheeks.... Then you glue together the saddle hackle wings... You glue the cheeks to...

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...

Need an anchor system for a 6' pram which I'm going to use on lakes. What anchors do people use?

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...

Fished some classic streamers with my Sharpes 13' spliced rod on a very very cold day today. Chief Needabah and a Pink Ghost. Tried my Bridge Wintertide 8/9 550 grain with a 15' 100 grain sink tip and liked it so much I may buy a Bridge Torrent 600 grain for those times when I need to fish a...

Ran some classic patterns down a steelhead riffle today with my 13' Sharpes impregnated rod. Started with a Brads Brat and a Rio 10/11 Midspey Line with a 15' Type VI tip. Was able to cast the entire 60' head and a 15' tip. Hairwings are out of fashion for winter steelhead but the long polar...

Bought one of my Sharpes spliced impregnated rods over to rodmaker Mike Monsos for some minor upkeep. He used rubbing alcohol to take off some poorly laid on wrap varnish... Touched it up with a paper towel... Laid down a coat of new varnish on the wrap with a needle... And cleaned up...

One of my Sharpes spliced bamboo rods has developed a crack across a spliced tip about a half inch down from the spliced tip on the middle section of the rod at the splice between the middle section and the top section. See pics below. Any ideas on the best way to repair. This part of the rod...

Harry Lemire Day today. The weather cooperated but the fish didn't. Working my single and double speys back into form...To be really true to form I suppose I should have fished an 8'6" cane rod and an all wood nottingham fly reel.

Purchased a set of 4 leather spliced protectors to protect my sharpes spliced rods when travelling to and from the water. $40 for the set of 4. Bought them from a speypages guy (Nickels, Nick.royer@hotmail.com). Really pleased with his work and wanted to let any of you spliced rod owners know...

Too cold to fish so it's time to fill out my Syd Glasso Spey fly box

Look what arrived in the mail today. A 4 1/4 inch Farlows Eunoch. The reel face has the C. Farlow name, Farlows Holdfast logo and the initials of the prior owner. Weighs 13.9 ounces by itself and 17 plus ounces loaded with line and backing so will be a nice counterbalance to my 16 oz 13'...

The woods are dreary, dark and deep but a difficult brushy hike puts you on a pool it takes all day to fish. First outing for a Sharpes spliced 9' 6.2 ounce spliced bamboo rod. It threw a 15 foot 7 weight sink tip nicely... We found bull trout on classic supervisor and white ghost new england...

Just added another Sharpes of Aberdeen spliced bamboo fly rod to my collection. It's a 9' 6/7 weight 2/2. Weighs 6.2 ounces. The Sharpes 1970 catalog catalog say this: The smaller brothers of the world-famous Spliced Salmon rods, having the same qualities and advantages. No metal joints to...

A Phillipson 9' 5 and 5/8's 7 weight bamboo fly rod and a farlows president reel... A winston 9' 5 and 3/8's 7 weight bamboo rod and a hardy reel A big riffle and rain... Extra strong Aeropress coffee... And bright bull trout..

Spent a successful day chasing bull trout with Greg Armstrong. Supervisors still work. Greg even found a couple coastal cutts. During the day the agate guide on my 10' Sharpes spliced rod came loose. See pics. Can I expoxy it back on or do I need to replace the guide?

Swing the Fly has a great video on Canadian bamboo rod maker and spey fisherman James Reid. Loved the logo he's got on his shop door. Speak it Jim. Here's a link to the video.