Saturday, November 26, 2011

Fly Rod 002

Started building a new fly rod a few weeks ago and put the final touches to it yesterday. It's a 9ft, 4wt, 4pc built on a TFO Professional series blank. The guides are wrapped in orange with gray trim rings. Won't get to use this one since I built it for someone else. Matched the rod with a Konic 1.5 reel.

After following The Fiberglass Manifesto for the past six months reading up on the growing popularity of glass fly rods, i've decided to build a 3wt out of glass. I have been in contact with Mike McFarland who is a custom builder as well as a custom blank maker. He is going to be making me a glass blank which I will make into a nice stream rod. Can't wait to get started on it

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4 comments:

  1. DazedandPerusedNovember 26, 2011 at 3:49 PM

    Nice build, Robert.

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  2. Texas Fly Fishing AdventuresNovember 27, 2011 at 10:18 AM

    Thanks, this one isn't for me but it came out nice.

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  3. Jerry HamonNovember 27, 2011 at 11:37 PM

    Very nice!

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  4. Texas Fly Fishing AdventuresNovember 29, 2011 at 5:29 PM

    Thanks Jerry, I really enjoy building rods and the few fly rods that I have built have been fun ones. Looking forward to many more.

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