The rod queue is beginning to stack up!

My oldest brother Tom, a fly fisherman for over 50 years now, would like a rod. A Midge, 6' 3", 2-piece, 4 weight, and he would like it flamed as dark as I can get it. Well, I know what that does to the bamboo, thanks to Bob Milward and Dr. Wolfram Schott, but for Tom, I'll give it a try.

The little video here shows my first flaming attempt. You can interpret that several ways - they're probably fitting whichever you choose:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvBFE1Q7ZTc

And yes, we wet down the dry grass before I started flaming. And no, we didn't for my friend's flaming when we started... that was more interesting but not a good time to be videoing. Glad it was his yard.