Those of you who have contracted the rod building disease know that you are doomed. Here is how I keep the number of rods in my personal collection to a minumum. I built a stand up rod rack . When I made the rack, I drilled “8” holes in it in order to hold that many rods.
Now I cant tell you how many times I’ve removed rods and replaced rods , but at present only one hole is vacant (shortly to be filled with another bamboo). If I hadnt done this , I’d probably have 50 rods. Now I dont know if I’ve just been kiddding myself by doing it this way or its just a mental justification…lol. All I know is that it has taken a considerable amout of will power not to drill any more holes in that rod rack…lmao…Ed
I built myself a “display” rack for my collectible rods. It holds 32 rods, 16 on the front and 16 more on the back. When an empty spot avails itself, I know I need to build another one … LOL.
In theory that seems like a good idea Ed, but you know us rod builders are an addictive bunch. I started out with one rod rack…now this is one side of the wall …
Hmmm…I thought when the rack filled, it was telling me to buy a new rack. I still need to build an 8 weight. It fills that crucial need between my 6 and my 9. And there is room for a 3 between the 2 and the 4. Did I use the word crucial yet? It’s true. And once I have an 8, I’ll probably need a 7 to fill the obvious gap there. After that, I need to move up or down, or discover that I need new lengths of rods I have. Then there is spey…
Someone must have slipped me an overdose of THE SERUM.
At one point I was up to six fly rods. Now I am down to three. My plans are to reduce that number to TWO in the relatively near future.
John
P.S. Since I don’t recall taking any serum, either it was injected into my DNA or my wife slipped it to me unnoticed at some point ?? The DNA thing is Scottish. My wife is an RN. Hmmmmmmmmmm …
P.S.1 The two rods I want to end up with both have to be built on blanks yet to be purchased. The point being, even the best serums are not a complete protection. On the other hand, it looks like there might be several people just aching to get their hands on those blanks and get started on building the rods for me ( that’s the serum kicking in ) !!
