Riverforged
Smolt
I've been tossing around some ideas for rod storage. I'll post an image below of some 3D prototyping. Planning to make something in the near future. On the cold days, I don't feel like wood working (shop isn't heated), and on the warm days, I run to the river. I'll have to plan ahead and stay home next time it gets above freezing out. Not much chance of that.
It was like spring for the last couple of weeks here in Montana. first it was in the 40s, then 50s, and it just kept climbing. Had a couple of days around 65 last week. Fish were eating midges on the surface everywhere you looked. Light rain all day long, in that regard it reminded me of winter fishing on the Olympic Peninsula. I was just planning to swing streamers around with my 6wt and a sink tip and enjoy the patter of rain on my hood and nobody else on the river. It was warm enough to avoid gloves. I had 7 fish in the net within the first hour. The fish were getting lucky too, missed just as many in that short window. I text my friend, and he ran down to join me, showed up with a dry fly rig and a couple of midges. Ended up swapping back and forth a few times when we found pods of rising fish. It was my first time using a 9' 3wt... absolute joy and now I have to try talking myself out of buying one every waking moment.
I should probably commit to building the rod rack at the very least, before adding another one to the collection.
It was like spring for the last couple of weeks here in Montana. first it was in the 40s, then 50s, and it just kept climbing. Had a couple of days around 65 last week. Fish were eating midges on the surface everywhere you looked. Light rain all day long, in that regard it reminded me of winter fishing on the Olympic Peninsula. I was just planning to swing streamers around with my 6wt and a sink tip and enjoy the patter of rain on my hood and nobody else on the river. It was warm enough to avoid gloves. I had 7 fish in the net within the first hour. The fish were getting lucky too, missed just as many in that short window. I text my friend, and he ran down to join me, showed up with a dry fly rig and a couple of midges. Ended up swapping back and forth a few times when we found pods of rising fish. It was my first time using a 9' 3wt... absolute joy and now I have to try talking myself out of buying one every waking moment.
I should probably commit to building the rod rack at the very least, before adding another one to the collection.
