Jay Hake
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Sam designs them and they are custom rolled for them by a USA based producer, I don’t remember who they said it was when I visited the shop.
They are certainly sweet sticks.
Colorado Mountain College has a fishing guide course offering:
http://www.coloradomtn.edu/cms/One.aspx?portalId=2935482&pageId=3702362
Thanks again all. Dave, I have a couple of rods that are going to be finished in the next month or so, I will post some more pictures. The most exciting one so far is an 8′ 5wt hollow built that is going in the varnish tank shortly. Here is what the inside of the blank looks like.
I love the Grangers. I know a guy in town with a W&M Granger 8040 that still has the plastic on the grip. Can’t seem to get him to part with it 😉
Cheers,
Jay
Thanks Neal and Corey.
Dave, the quad is one of my own. A 7’9″ 4wt that I finished this past spring. A taper design of my own as well, which turned out to be a really nice stick. I have hoped to make a few more quads, but the ferrules are a pain in the butt. So, until I get that situation straight, I am making more hexes these days.
Cheers,
Jay
Jay, I’m glad you brought that up. I can never read TIF either and I thought something was wrong with me. I think it tries too hard.
Zach, good point about getting what you pay for.
No, it’s not just you.
A guy named Nicholas Carr wrote a really interesting article in The Atlantic magazine last summer. It is called Is Google Making Us Stupid?. Basically, the premise is that the brain appears to operate differently when searching and reading information online, as opposed to in a traditional print media, with peoples online activities being more information gathering based, as opposed to deeper comprehension.
I have noticed this problem myself. I cannot concentrate long enough to read a long article online. I always feel the “need” to multi-task. If I want to actually read something that is published online, and really digest and contemplate it, I actually need to print it off on a piece of paper and go sit somewhere where I am not in front of my computer(s).
Maybe I am an old fart at 37, and maybe I have fried my eyes from too many hours staring at the computer screen as a lawyer, but the combination of the format, colors, and layout of This Is Fly is almost impossible for me to read (especially when coupled with my above mentioned inability to concentrate online). I was really excited about the concept when it was first announced, and I still click through some of the issues, but I am literally unable to read full features. I respect the huge effort these guys have put into it, as well as their alternative approach, but I just can’t do it.
I think this is why Catch works so well. Less text, more photos, more video. It takes advantage of what a really good multi-media computer can provide.
Anyway, I know this is a big aside from the beginnings of this thread, but, do others find themselves with this same problem? By the way, if you are interested in Carr’s article, you can find it here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google
I would recommend printing it off, grabbing a beer, and sitting on the couch to read it. 😉
Jay
My copy of Rise just arrived on Thursday last and I had an opportunity to watch it over the weekend.
I owned an Orvis wading jacket for a few years and I felt like it lost its water resistance pretty fast.
Zach,
Thanks for the info, I can imagine the timing and coordination issues with a double haul off-handed is tough.
