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    Default Forecast 2 wt.

    Will make it short and sweet.
    Somebody gave me an old 1492. Thought it'd make a good 2wt. reel. So I built a 2 wt.


    Took it out today for a test run. Taking this with a phone was tougher than I thought it'd be. The Tilapia won.

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    Trying to take a picture while fighting a fish? I would have dropped the phone and broke the rod. That's a nice clean looking build.
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    Funny, I just got a 1492 also and going to make up a rod for the wife. Now I just need to get her into a casting class. I tried to teach her with no luck. It was easier training 45 new recruits in Basic Training as a drill sgt. than it is trying to teach fly casting to my wife

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    Quote Originally Posted by NewTyer 1 View Post
    Funny, I just got a 1492 also and going to make up a rod for the wife. Now I just need to get her into a casting class. I tried to teach her with no luck. It was easier training 45 new recruits in Basic Training as a drill sgt. than it is trying to teach fly casting to my wife
    The recruits were afraid of you. She isn't.
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    A recruit has little recourse against a drill sergeant, a wife on the other hand.......... Find a Joan Wulff video and get her to watch that it may be a language problem.

    Hey, I had to teach my wife to drive a car in the first couple of years we were married. I still have the same wife, 3 week shy of 46 years.
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    It's more the other way around Kevin. I'm afraid of her.

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    Quote Originally Posted by smij View Post
    Took it out today for a test run. Taking this with a phone was tougher than I thought it'd be. The Tilapia won.
    You are the second person to mention catching a tilapia recently. What kind of fly were you using. I thought they were pretty much vegetarians.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Uncle Jesse View Post
    You are the second person to mention catching a tilapia recently. What kind of fly were you using. I thought they were pretty much vegetarians.
    In this pond, they occasionally take an olive hair's ear nymph under a strike indicator. I was chasing bluegill. In a local roadside ditch, I hooked two on a black wooly bugger... But, for the most part, they ignore everything.

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    I do it all the time on either crystal white or black wooly buggers on my 2wtCG 007.jpg

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    If you've ever kept cichlids of any sort (to which tribe tilapia belong) you'll know they're aggressive regardless of food preferences. Sometimes they just want to kill something.
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