So this evening, our local animal shelter held its annual wine festival and auction. The auction included an Ovris Power Master PM-10 9’6" 9wt 2 piece rod.
So I’m wondering if anyone else has used this rod, and also looking for some suggestions for 9wt fly lines to pick up over the winter for when I use it next spring.
Tried to also win a Float trip, but the guy who presented the item decided to bid on it… himself. (WTF?!) heh. Oh well.
It was a great time, glad I got to donate some money to a local cause.
He has expenses with the float trip, it was probably cheaper for him to buy the trip back than to go through with the trip, I suspect if you had gone above what it cost him, he would have backed off.
That’s certainly possible. Not a huge deal. Just when he threw up his bid card, he got a few looks from the crowd, organizers, and even the auctioneer. This outfit does charge quite a bit more for their trips then others in the state. Most of their float trips are north of $600. Meanwhile, I can take trips on the North Platte, Green, or take wade trips into Yellowstone for significantly less than that.
The event went well none the less, My wife won a painting, we lost a moose photograph, won my flyrod, and an autographed Cesar Millan book that we donated went for a decent price. Plus I got to taste a wide variety of wines. Heh. A week long fly fishing trip to Alaska went for well over $4K. Maybe someday, I’ll have enough in my “fishing account” to bid on that trip.
I have this rod and love it, use it for large mouth bass with a floating wf9f
as well with a cortland 444 wf8s rocket taper. Been using this rod for better than fifteen years a real gem to cast.
Yeah I was thinking I would use this on the Large Mouth bass that are at one of our local lakes. Think it will work well for that. Also should work well on a few of the mountain lakes that can give me wind issues with my 5 wt.
I believe PM stands for “Power Matrix”, not Power Master. I have the 9’-9wt rod in this series. I use for northeast saltwater fly fishing - striped bass, bluefish, etc. I use 10wt lines on it. It’s a great rod, but I’d consider it overkill for most freshwater applications.
Heh. A week long fly fishing trip to Alaska went for well over $4K. Maybe someday, I’ll have enough in my “fishing account” to bid on that trip. 