Bob Rankin
Wandering the country with rifle and spey rod.
I picked up an old Sage Brownie 9140-4 about a week ago. It came up for sale and I just couldn’t resist owning one of these PNW legends. I’ve always kind of wanted one, I did have the greenie in the same configuration that I fished with a wind cutter in the 90’s. That thing was a tank of a rod.
Anyway…. I’ll admit the Brownie has a weirdly short for grip, uplocking reel seat and pretty tip heavy. But… I’m kind of in love with it
it feels like a 7wt to me.
I went up to the river today to run through some heads and lines.
First line was a Godshall Scandi 39’ 486grn. It was underwhelming.
Second line was a Rio AFS 40’ 520grn. This line with Airflo ridge running line was real nice.
Third line was a Godshall 53’ 532 grn. This full integrated line was ok, didn’t shoot great.
line number four was a Gaelforce 63’ 662gr full integrated line. All I can say is that I’ve never cast A line this far! Good God this is a match made in heaven!
All in all had an awesome afternoon just casting this old Beauty. It’s real noodley and feels like a heavy 7wt. I guess new isn’t always better![Grimacing face :grimacing: 😬](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f62c.png)
Anyway…. I’ll admit the Brownie has a weirdly short for grip, uplocking reel seat and pretty tip heavy. But… I’m kind of in love with it
![Face with tears of joy :joy: 😂](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png)
I went up to the river today to run through some heads and lines.
First line was a Godshall Scandi 39’ 486grn. It was underwhelming.
Second line was a Rio AFS 40’ 520grn. This line with Airflo ridge running line was real nice.
Third line was a Godshall 53’ 532 grn. This full integrated line was ok, didn’t shoot great.
line number four was a Gaelforce 63’ 662gr full integrated line. All I can say is that I’ve never cast A line this far! Good God this is a match made in heaven!
All in all had an awesome afternoon just casting this old Beauty. It’s real noodley and feels like a heavy 7wt. I guess new isn’t always better
![Grimacing face :grimacing: 😬](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f62c.png)
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