Hey Bob!

Well, I need to get hot on that - I have been traveling all over the place this summer and it is still in rough-planed state in my shop. This one (assuming it turns out well enough) is going to be a Christmas present for our son Jon out in Colorado. My mentor Mark thinks it ought to be a Granger since Jon lives in CO but I've already got it in my mind to keep it a G202E since I really like the way they cast. Now that I've had the opportunity to use my rod in Michigan, Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming over the summer several things have occurred to me - first, I really, really like using a bamboo rod, and second, once I got over the mental hangup of trying to handle it like a piece of fine china it dawned on me that that's all it really is - a fly rod. But a good one.