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  • Jul 13, 2008 at 12:58 pm #3274
    Avatar photoCameron Mortenson
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    Every summer we take a week, usually over the 4th of July, and head back to my home state of Michigan to see my family and to play at the family lake house.

    Jul 13, 2008 at 1:28 pm #27417
    Avatar photoDavid Anderson
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    Great set of shots Cameron !

    Who’s the rod maker ?

    I love the look of the grips !

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    A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.

    Jul 13, 2008 at 3:38 pm #27418
    anonymous
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    Have to second David, Cameron. I always enjoy your photo essays/trip reports. What great memories.

    Jul 13, 2008 at 4:05 pm #27419
    Avatar photoCameron Mortenson
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    The rod maker is Mike Carlson who builds under the name Mountainshark Fly Rods.

    Jul 13, 2008 at 11:20 pm #27420
    mark s
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    Cameron,

    That fly box is awesome – nice rods as well.

    Jul 13, 2008 at 11:26 pm #27421
    Avatar photoCameron Mortenson
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    Mark…Michigan is an amazing state and I am reminded that more on each trip home.

    Jul 14, 2008 at 2:48 am #27422
    Avatar photoTim Angeli
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    Cameron,

    Looks like a really fun trip.

    Jul 14, 2008 at 12:33 pm #27423
    Zach Matthews
    The Itinerant Angler

    Very cool Cameron.

    Jul 14, 2008 at 1:18 pm #27424
    Avatar photoCameron Mortenson
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    It is actually a better fly rod than it is a spinning rod which is just fine with me.

    Jul 14, 2008 at 1:28 pm #27425
    Avatar photoDavid Anderson
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    Cameron, I don’t know if I’ve posted this before but –

    As a kid I went on my dads field trips to the UP and did a lot of my first fly fishing there.

    He was a Geology prof from the U of I and went most summers with a dozen or so students.
    While they scratched and hammered at the earth I fished.

    Was magic.

    www.dsaphoto.com

    A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.

    Jul 14, 2008 at 1:49 pm #27426
    Gary Sundin
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    Very nice shots.

    Jul 14, 2008 at 1:55 pm #27427
    andrew connell
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    Cameron, thats fantastic sweet looking rods 🙂 Great to see Fly Fishing as a family pursuit

    Jul 14, 2008 at 3:19 pm #27428
    Rich Kovars
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    Nice post Cameron!

    Jul 14, 2008 at 11:14 pm #27429
    Darrin Terry
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    Great post Cameron. Love the matched sticks too. Look sweet with the Martin reels. And the little Zebco is sweet. Looks like you may a fishing partner for a good while. Good for you both. 🙂

    Darrin

    PS – I’ve still not been able to build that glass rod yet, but the Honey colored Lamiglas is the likely blank. Just finished a pair of 2 wt rods, got two more of those to build then it’s time to build one for me again. Hope to have them all done by Labor Day. Thanks again for the heads up on those blanks.

    Jul 16, 2008 at 3:27 pm #27430
    regan c. kenyon jr.
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    http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3361

    We’ve got those rock bass around here in NJ.

    Jul 17, 2008 at 10:14 am #27431
    Avatar photoCameron Mortenson
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    Darrin…I don’t know what you are looking for in your Lamiglass build…but out of all the honey blanks that I’ve messed with…the gem of the bunch so far seems to be the 7 1/2 foot three piece four weight.

    Jul 18, 2008 at 2:48 am #27432
    Avatar photoDavid Anderson
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    Sorry Camron, wish I could but that was in the 70’s BC.
    (before cameras ;))

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    A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.

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