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Stan Coffin sucks…! We spent 2 hours on it this morning and Rick caught one (1) yellow perch…. Mel and I never got a bite. We looked at Burke but the one guy we talked to said it was a waste of time. So back to Quincy and everyone caught fish! Mostly small rainbows, and a bunch of fat perch...

Yeah.. big fish, and great fun on a bamboo 4-5wt! Pat.. I’ll have to pass on the coffee. I lost my hearing aid/charger and I’m deaf as a door nail! Next time…

Hard, cold work on Dry Falls! But the few we caught were beautiful!

Yeah… looked you guys were slaying them! We may see you there again…

A little slow… but we got a few!

With the Main Event not many days away, I spent most of the morning playing with horsehair and “snooding” flies. The trick is to tie a knot on the end of 2-3 strands of hair, then carefully twist the horsehairs together. (I’m not a very good twister and destroyed the first several) Then it’s to...

Thanks for the update, Buzzy! I’ll track you down for that cup of coffee (on me!) when I get back over there.

Are all the lakes frozen over in your neighborhood, Buzzy? Would like to terrorize some fish over there in early March.

First fish…. and he was a dandy! I just spent a few hours on our local, wild and scenic rock pit, …and finally caught a couple fish. The first was a 12-14 pound steelhead that jumped 8-10 times, had me into the backing twice, and took almost 30 minutes to land! Great fun! The other was a nice...

Yikes…!

Sorry to keep clogging up the web site… but this was a fun print, and something I never have enough of… fly boxes! It came out nice, and I even used the foam the printer was packed in.. Works good, lasts long time.

I just popped another fly reel off the printer from a different web site. It’s a little rough compared to the other, (the fish don’t care!) ..but should buff out nicely. It’s got a set of 696 ball bearings in it, and spins beautifully… I just need a way of slowing it down, no drag or clicker…

The PETG-CF carbon fiber filament was about $25 a spool..... and I think you could make 8-10 reels from it. The stainless steel nut, bolt, and screw is about $1.00.. so pretty cheap to build a reel. Should be fun for the fish I catch! (the printer is a little spendy.. $379 on sale...)

It’s a wrap…or print in this case. I used this download: https://www.printables.com/model/1293989-fly-reel And with the Flashforge Adventurer 5M Pro printer, a .4 nozzle, PETG-CF filament (carbon fiber), ss screws, nuts and bolts, ….it took about 3 hours to print. I’d recommend 100% fill for...

The short version…. You download a program to a flash drive, choose a filament, (in this case carbon fiber for strength) .. and hit the start button. For the fly reel, there’s 3 different prints for the parts, and takes about 2 hours to complete. I did have to buy some ss nuts, screws, and bolts...

Starting to figure out how this works… I had help.😊 It does make a pretty nice fly reel! I’ll post some details in a couple days.

I’m in the building fly reel bidness….! 😁

I need to figure out how to turn it on first…😁

Wow… my daughter got me a 3D printer for Christmas! A little research and I found a fly reel can be made from the carbon fiber filament…! A report to follow…

The boys liked the fly rods…!