…went to my favorite lake Sunday; weather was nice, but a little windy…
Wanted to really give a new rod that was custome made for me by Lou Perez, “loudog” here on the board. He took a Cabela’s Stowaway 8.5 3wt and dropped the butt section; making it a 6’10" 3-4 wt. I strung it up with SA Ultra 4 WF4F line on an Orvis BBS II reel.
Balance is perfect and it casts as far as your double-haul ability will allow.
Ended up with 11 fish landed and 5 missed. The take was real subtle all day.
Here’s the nice crappie I caught yesterday that didn’t come out this morning when I made this post…
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Nice Jim, glad the rod worked for ya. You may need to save a seat on that Jon Boat of yours and show me that honey hole come spring. Those are some real nice looking gills.
The seat is a PacBay S1 with maple insert and nickle silver slide bands. The cork is a Pac Bay cigar that I modified, quite a bit actually. I cut about 1.5 inches off the ends and turned it down considerably. The original grip was your usual clunky cigar and I made it more appropriate for this small rod.
Lou, I eMailed you just before I left for work; spring it is…
JC: forget it, I live in southern New Jersey…you don’t eat anything out of Joisey waters, just pick up a copy of our Fish & Game guide and it lists all the waters in the state with the warning “do not eat” or 1 per month!!! Ain’t America great?
drolfson and zzdruid: the fly was a figment of my imagination last year and I have caught everything on it; LMB, yellow perch, crappie, gills, pickerel…
It’s beadchain eyes on a #8 hook, couple of pieces of red marabou and red crystal flash in the tail, wine color chrystal chenille and old junk hackle.
Went to the same lake today for 2 hours and caught 7 nice gill as pictured above. I use it and a #10 Frog popper almost exclusively all season.
As far as the rod goes; it’s the nicest little rod I’ve ever owned. Let “loudog” fill you in on the finer details, I’m still watching Garcia’a tape and waiting for Scheck’s book!
ftroop7; you know it is…never been skunked there in 6 years of FF’ing it.
nighthawk; it’s a date, whooops, I mean, that sounds great!!! Only time I get to PA is with my TU chapter on weekend trips.
Maybe by then I’ll have my first rod finished…yeh, I took the plunge and bought a kit from H&H.
