Jack Cummings
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Hey BD, welcome!
I think the pic points out that the reel seat used is one that cost about $1 to a company like Winston.An attempt at weight reduction, but weight is only part of what makes a great fly rod.For me, it’s about the action… first and foremost. You can put a platinum and ivory reel seat with a ruby stripping guide on any rod, but if the blank is a wanker all you have is a fancy wanker!
More things to look for are the number of guides (quick and easy way to cut costs), hardware that works (a reel seat should actually HOLD a reel) and the ferrules should hold the sections together firmly yet still allow disassembly!), a fair warranty and good, overall workanship.
You can learn a lot by looking closely at different rods in different price points.
You’re lucky in getting into this rapid hobby now, the middle-of-the-road rods now were the cream of the crop a few short years ago.* on both of the rods above, the wraps and epoxy work was perfect. It almost seems they got so lost in the detail they forgot the bigger picture!* ::)
C’mon now, Zach… in all fairness it should be noted that you can get either the carbon fiber reel seat OR the wood with nickel-silver at the base price. I opted for the graphite simply because I personally thought ‘form follows function’ with that light of a rod. Winston went to great pains to make sure the BIIx series were some of the lightest rods on the planet and many of us opted for the lighter seat because of that.
As for the two pictures of mine that you posted, that DOES indeed peeve me off! There was no way before the current buffoon started running the company (to the ground?) that rods like that would leave Twin Bridges.
I do not blame those who built the rods as much as I blame the current management (remember ‘the buck stops here’?)
It is MANAGEMENT who provides an atmosphere for perfection. If they have sped up production to the point of compromise the fault lies clearly with them!That said, I will more than likely but more Winston’s unless this downward spiral continues or until I get another that has shabby workmanship OR, and this is very possible, I fall in love with that Scott G2 when I finally get my mitts on one!
Didn’t S.A. help develop that casting analyzer that Sage now has its claws into?
If true, ain’t that a slap in the face? ::)Well, that does it for me! I was really getting geeked about Rio too!
The biggest concern I had with S.A. lately was the tips tend to sink for me. On another site Bruce Richards said something is in the works to address this problem. I’ll wait (or use Orvis or Monic ‘high float’ butt sections).Dr. Slicks… think about it. Here I imagine a Doctor who see’s scissors and tweezers tossed in the trash after a single medical procedure and wonders, ‘if they are so inexpensive that it is cheaper to throw them away than to sterilize them I imagine I could get them at a good price myself from Pakastan’, and fires off a few emails.
Next thing you know every fly shop in the states sells those tools at a rich mark-up and all is well with the world; especiallyfor the good Doctor!I would not hesitate in sending them back! You bought the carbide over the standard tools because they are supposed to be tougher! I’m sure had you known these ‘tougher’ scissors couldn’t handle the task the standards can you wouldn’t have paid twice as much for them.
Let the Doctor eat ’em!
Cabela’s? The best you can do is try! 😉
Yeah Zach, those caddis were out in force in the evening. I would guess them to be around size 10 bodies with larger over wings. The color that came to
Zach, a few of us Psycho Fly Fishers spent Friday on Hazel Creek. We hiked a good way up.. about as far as you would like to go on a day trip and still get some fishing in.
What I remember most about it is BEARS!  😮
True story! We saw three of those critters with one being a very close encounter indeed! Pics will be flying around shortly.
As for the fishing…. yeah… it gets beat up pretty hard. There were 7 of us, all very good fishers and if you’re going for numbers this might not be the creek for you.
The water is the about as fishy looking as it gets though.
All-in-all I would have to say I’ll leave it for those who ‘own’ the creek! ;DOh yeah… I discovered that bears do not ‘scat’ in the woods! They do it on the trail instead! 😉
I think it sucks that Sage now owns this technology! I already get that brand forced on me far too much at the shops I frequent.
Blunt enough?I was about to dismiss that bike a bunk, until I noticed it didn’t have the obligatory mussett grabbing long horn steer brake levers! 😮
Campagnolo, the Charlton of bicycle components!
Zach, Jack here. I finally got over the reservations i had against registering for yet another board!
The boy can’t help it, he’s addicted! ;DI’ve floated countless times in Michigan, out west and here in the South.
As for your questions about drifters, there is no way I would take another persons wooden drift boat without a lot of time at the helm under my belt and without plenty of ‘local knowledge’ of the river I’m floating. If drift boat owners are like most other boat owners, they can be awfully particular about their crafts.The raft would be harder to hurt on rocks and more forgiving whan you do smash into them.
