HRQ yesterday......

Bambooflyguy

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:(:mad::cry: While playing the third trout....HRQ broke at the 5th guide. It wasn’t even a bragging size fish.... A couple of possible reasons I can think of, first I was rotating the rod fighting the trout and it might’ve snapped while bending the pith side. Then it’s where I started to semi rectangle the tip section.....no node where it broke either. Oh well....another scarf and a little shorter.
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Bambooflyguy

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Well that section of bamboo sucks! It didn’t make it out of my living room....flex test broke above the scarf. So.....now it’s a 3+3! Hex butt, quad mid and round graphite tip section! A real Frankenrod!
 

Mike Monsos

Steelhead
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Every failure is a chance to sharpen up a new experiences and skills development in repairs. I'm sure you'll figure out something.(y)

Mike
 

Bambooflyguy

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Well.....as the title reads.....HRQ yesterday......broke on the tip(mid) section again. Something suspicious about that bamboo used for the original tip section. The 100 year old + bamboo from my grandfather is still fine, like the first PMQ I made from it. So now, do I shorten it further and use the graphite tip section or scarf a hex tip section to keep it all bamboo?? Decisions to be made.......screw it for now, fishing time!
 

Tom Butler

Grandpa, Small Stream Fanatic
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Might be time to bag that one and work out a replacement design. Now that you have all that free time, but you can't fix it if your fishing.:)
 

Bambooflyguy

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So I made the decision to keep it all bamboo......I scarfed on a hex bamboo tip section today. I’m spending more time working/fixing this rod than fishing with it.....good thing I now have the time! There’s only about 2’ of quad left.....
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Bambooflyguy

Life of the Party
I recently got to actually hold HRQ. It is pretty cool. A wet line ?
Chris, lately I’ve been using a wet line on HRQ......casts that line well. Crystal River type III sink, best wet line I’ve used especially for the $$.
 
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