Well, I had been searching for a short two-hander (something in the 10′-10′6″ range) in a 10 wt for serious big toothy chasing for a while.  That turned out to be tough.  I could find lighter rods or longer rods [read more]

Finished up my heaver general duty fly rod hope to use it on some smaller flathead catfish, pike, bowfin, and gar.  This rod should be a good tool for that work, moderately large predator flies.  It won’t huck the biggest [read more]

Finally, kicked the skunk.  I’ve been heading out trying to scratch the first fish of the year and first fish for my 6 wt Switch that I built recently.
Many people have experienced the difficulty in getting into the swing of [read more]

The river conditions were not very good, but they were workable and the weather was really nice yesterday.
No fish to show for my efforts – whiffed on one and that was all.  Did, however, get to try out my new [read more]

From Nebraska… Thanksgiving was fun, sadly no fishing but the weather was nice.  Turkey was, as turkey is, not too exciting.  Although I made it this year with a Guinness brine, then smoked it for a couple hours, before finally [read more]

I Gave my second go at cottonwood bark grips.  I tried on a Salmon Rod (clicky) recently but gave up.  It was difficult to bore out the hole to the diameter and even the pieces that I got bored out [read more]

10′ 8″ of 4 piece sucker slaying two-handed fury.  Built on a Batson/rainshadow switch blank.  Advertised grain window of 160-330, although many people seem to go upwards of 30 grains heavier with short skagit heads, so I have some experimenting [read more]