Recent content by jeffj

That's what overinflating the seat back feels like to me. It puts me in a forward leaning position. With the seat valve right over your shoulder you can let air out while you fish until it feels right to you

I picked one up the 1st year that they were made on the auction site for quite a bit less than the $480 price tag at the time. The fact that the area behind the seat is dry storage (unless the weather is foul) was a nice upgrade from my SFC. The removable gear bags were a nice addition too. The...

Trying for 1 1/2 hrs every other day at the moment. Riding a 40 yr old steel frame Tommasini that I upgraded to 11 sp cluster a few years ago. The bike is a lot slower than it used to be in the 80s and 90s for some reason but I'm having a good time.

Wet shoes and deer flies

I believe you're correct about the Fisher blanks. Fisher was also involved in starting the Hardy fiberglass factory.

Scientific Anglers system Rods, the glass ones. They put them out in 4wt to 11wt. The hardy JET rods. Sceptre and Fibatube were a couple of quality British brands that looked a lot like Fisher with spigot ferrules and dark brown blanks.

Obviously lost by a gear fisherman

Don't have a Union Hardware, how about a Laurentian. I think it's close to the same era

I submitted the pictures to the Classic Rod forum, and they agree with you. Union Hardware for sure. Thanks Jeff

It's marked as a 5wt and handles that fine but a 333 4wt feels nicer on it to me. I've lawn casted it with a 3 and that's just a bit light for me. It's got a grip built with 1/16 in gaps between the rings so you can feel it flex in your hand with a decent fish on. It's a nice light clean little...

I like Eastside's solution. I might change up my funky kayak holders to the Berkeley rack. I have one in the garage for gear rods and it's really secure

Scratching my head over the rod weights. Weighed a 7030 and it came in right on 3.01oz with one tip 2.99oz with the 2nd. It's a DeBell with one Granger tip and one Phillipson. I'm done weighing rods for the day, looks like a rabbit hole I don't need to go down right now.

Rod with light tip weighs 5.3oz. Doesn't have Phillipson's purple glue lines and I don't think they built any swelled butt rods. I had a Haywood Zephyr for a while, it's a spin/fly. Not sure if the rod weight means anything, my understanding is that's usually the weight of the unfinished blank...

This one is 81/2 ft slight swelled butt, 2 tip. The tips are different weights and diameters. The light one is 10g and the heavy one is 15g. I've seen the Haywood name associated with Phillipson but their Haywood is a spin/fly, 7ft if I recall correctly. Any guesses are welcome, I've never been...

I've always thought if there's a cast you should take it. I've had plenty of fish flee from what I thought was a perfect presentation to a feeding fish. Plenty more have taken a "Hail Mary" shot that looked hopeless. I spent an hour following a school that was taking flying ants off the surface...