New rod is ready

[MikieFinn]

Here it is.

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u...s/100_0164.jpg


I know it's a spinning rod but I had my reasons.

Next one will be 5 wt. And I still cannot decide Avid or Legend.

Will decide next month I guess.

[JAd]

[QUOTE=MikieFinn;215734]Here it is.

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u...s/100_0164.jpg


I know it's a spinning rod but I had my reasons.

Next one will be 5 wt.

Nice looking job, you will have a good time with that.

John

[ol' blue]

It looks very much like my first rod, which was a Cabelas kit. Mine wasn't a very good piece of work, but I still like to fish with it when I'm not flyfishing. Yours looks like a better effort than my first one. Good job.

[MikieFinn]

It is Cabela's kit. StCroix SC III ultra light.

It is withoud a doubt in my mind the smoothest ultra light I have ever casted.

On the forst cast I thought the rig came off because I did not feel a thing. yet the rod loaded and unluded like a charm.

With the set up below I was casting 120 to 130 feet in the cross wind with just one hand and no effort at all. My right arm did not fully recover from a mishap I had few weeks back so I cannot really whip it.
here is the rig:

Size 30 Quantum Incyte spooled with 5 pound test Power Pro superbraid.

On the business end small snap swivel , 1/2 oz egg sinker, three feet of 4 pound Vanish, size 18 Mustad treble and small gob of PB. (Sue me ). And no I do not call it flyfishing.

[William Fitzgerald]

Ah yes single foot guides--not many build that way. Fishbum talked me into building my 9 ft 8 weight fly rod with them and the action is great. Its for steelhead and bass but the 12 pound carp I caught in the fall was a thrill. Dont tell anyone but I sometimes use a 8 foot spinning rod ,built on a fly rod blank with 2 pound line. BILL FITZ