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We had our best fishing there on 3/28 and 3/29 this week from 10:30 to 1:30. My friend caught 16 fish on 3/28. I landed 9 that day, including a 9 lb, 30-incher on a 7/8-wt bamboo rod I built out...

You can usually get a pretty quick response by posting some good photos of the rod on the Appraisals section of this bamboo rod forum: http://classicflyrodforum.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=69. Many...

I tried to capture the feeling of the thick midge hatch at Crowley Lake yesterday. Fishing was fabulous. I must have had a grab on my midge nymphs at least every 2 minutes all morning long. Landed 12...

Beautiful photos!

We fished Pyramid April 9-12. It was generally slow, but I managed 17, all on red Copper Johns, Maholo nymphs, and Maholo midges, and all on a new steelhead-wt bamboo rod I built out recently (first...

Katz,

Nice fish, and nice reel seat insert on that rod. I'm making my own inserts now and wondering what kind of wood that is.

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Yes, cropped to focus on that big tail and the old South Bend ventillated grip. The whole photo looks pretty good (below), but I kind of like the tantalizing effect of cropped fish photos. I think...

1940s South Bend bamboo rod with a Lahontan Cutthroat at Pyramid Lake.

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Beautiful photo! Catches the excitement of seeing schooling fish - even if in a raceway.

I'll echo the recommendatin for Dennis Stone's blanks. His sale runs through the end of the month and can be found in the classified section at the clarks forum referenced earlier. He is building a...

Except for the PVC landing net!

Darian:

I have three impregnated bamboo rods now (two old Orvis ones and a nice old Horrocks-Ibbotson "Chancellor" from the 50s); they cast just as well as my non-impregnated bamboo rods, although...

Eric and Darian:

I've seen a lot of theoretical discussions about pluses and minuses of hollow built bamboo rods, mostly how it lightens their weight (a good thing) and changes the action (some...

Better for pushing to create fast action. Oh, I'm referring to bamboo rod tapers, like the rod built on a Dickerson taper I posted a couple of days ago. That has what is referred to as a swelled...

Eric:

Impregnated bamboo rods are great. I have two old Orvis impregnated rods. They are basically waterproof without a varnish coating. I used one in 40-degree rainy weather in northern Idaho a...

The Reel Life fly shop in Santa Fe was very helpful when I was there a couple of years ago. I was heading up to the San Juan after a meeting in Santa Fe, and they set me up with the right flies...

PMD: For now, I'll just use my old Hardy LRH Lightweight reel with this rod, although the color of my old Orvis Battenkill reel might look better. Got any suggestions? There are some really...

Not sure this would be of much interest here, but I had to show it off. This was my first attempt to build out a new bamboo rod from an unferruled hexagonal bamboo blank - a Dickerson 761510 taper...

Fantastic photos!

Great report and beautiful photos! The tail on that 30" steelhead is huge.

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I was catching a few bluegills this week on a local lake to get the feel of my grandfather's old 1949 7' bamboo rod that I inherited...

Great photo! What kind of rod is that?

Lots of bugs and beautiful weather on the Yuba this afternoon. Caddis were plentiful, and nice fish were jumping for them. Small mayflies suddenly appeared in huge quantities and crawled all over...