... a man just wants to step away from the modern world of graphite rods, plastic lures, and other high-tech fishing doodads and return to the classic days of old, stalking streamside with a classic bamboo flyrod and a dry fly pursuing the King of Gamefish, Salvelinus Fontinalis, the Eastern Brooke Trout. (technically a char, not a trout) And of course a gentleman only casts upstream :wink: :innocentwhistle:
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Whaaaaaaat did you run into :confused:
Did you dig up grampas rods or go on a spending spree?
I have had that beauty for years. It actually belonged to my maternal grandfather. It only hunts trout anything else would be sacrilegious. Gramps would rise up out of the ground if I ever caught a panfish or a bass on that he was a firm believer that anything other than a trout was for the peasants :hahaha: :wink:
There is a panel on the top lid that slides out that has a space underneath with flies and tippets under it.
Does that make up 2 different rods? Like a light & a medium rod? That's not a single 5 piece flyrod is it? I know nothing about fly fishing but it looks like 2 different upper rod tips in there. The pics are a little blurry.
3 piece with 2 tips.
That's pretty flipping sweet! Thanks Grandpa.
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Gramps was that old guy that you would see with a deerstalker hat canvas vest and a pipe clamped between his teeth stalking the stream. When I was a little guy we used to talk flyfishing a lot and every now and then he would slip me a nip of his blackberry brandy flask he kept inside his vest ha ha. I was his favorite because I carry his first name as my middle name :biggrin:
Thats cool. I wondered about the 2 tips. light & medium I suppose?
Here's the reel that runs with that rod and a classic squirmy wormy trout fly.
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Wow!
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That's from back in the days when they made things out of metal and not plastic!
Nice!! Love the wear marks on that one!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
Those silicone worms are absolutely deadly on trout. Bamboo rods are beautiful and in some cases a work of art but performance wise they can't ride the trail with graphite and even fiberglass which has made a big comeback in the last few years. Fiberglass has that long soft sweeping action that is perfect for dry flies.
I'll take your word for that nasty! I've never tried fly fishing unless you count a tied fly several feet from a tiny bobber & floating it down the river. :shrug: