Yea Blue, it is grand... had all this fun, and now I have a new fishin' rod to boot. There are plenty of imperfections, a couple that even a cursory look will find. But it's my rod now. I know how it works, have spent some quality time with it. How could it not be special? The fact that it is already the best casting rod I own, and I have only lawn cast it for 10 mins. may be mearly the product of my affection for it, but I sure can't wait to give it a proper baptism.


And to answer Jacks question, as I noted in a now locked post on sound off, I was gifted with a 9' 4wt, which will be my next build as soon as I get an order of componants from H&H. Hopefully I learned enough from my mistakes on #1 that #2 will be much better, and by the time I get to number 6 or 7 I ought to be pretty good.

Ed