Roger Stouff
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Well, I worked on it a little tonight, and I still suck at it, but I think I got a little better idea what I’m working at. I did it about half the times I tried with no more than 30 feet of line out.
Thanks, guys, I’ll keep at it! It’s almost a prerequisite fishing down these little bayous in swampy coulees. I have no instructors around here, and am in fact one of only 4 fly fishermen in the whole parish (county) all of us self-taught!
R
Zach,
OK, it’s prophetic. As it happens I’ve been working on my roll cast, which is a major weakness. I have a couple questions.
In the photo, you are holding the rod in your right hand but the line is to your left to form the D loop. Have I been misreading instruction on the roll cast? I thought you lifted the rod to form the D loop on the same side as the rod?All my roll casts seem to fizzle halfway down the line, and i’m only talking 30 to 40 feet. If they do unroll all the way, they do so in a ziggy way, not straight.
I’ve tried with different rods, but all with WF lines. I’ve ordered a couple DTs to see if it helps. What action is best for roll casting, fast, medium, slow?
Thanks,
Roger Stouff
LouisianaBD, bowfin are quite abundant down here (south Lousyana). We call them choupique as the Cajuns do. I’ve caught many accidentally as well. I don’t know how you’d target them, though. I caught most when I was drowning worms years ago, but they still hit the various fly when it’s deep and near the bottom.
Consequently I’ve caught more catfish on a Jitterbee than I ever did in my baitfishing days.
Best,
RHey Zach,
The bayous are full of them. I never actually fished them on purpose, but I have caught them. They have bit Clousers, gold bendbacks and other shiny stuff. Slow and methodical is the key. They won’t chase much. I have heard of folks fishing them with just yarn on the tippet…gets tangled up in those minute teeth.I did snag one on accident with a opper once. In the tail. He went about 10 lbs. It was quite an experience, but I got my popper back! 🙂
Best,
RHey, Dude, glad to see ya. Thought I’d drop in as well, though I’ve been around these parts before. Zach runs a first-class place here and there’s some good folks about.
Cameron,
Check Ebay. I see them all the time, and there is a 6’6″ version as well. I’ve often thought about getting one, for the price even if it sucked I wouldn’t kick myself very hard. Glad to hear a good review of the rods.
Roger Stouff
LouisianaCurrently, it’s an 8′ 7-wt 2/2 bamboo I just took delivery of from Harry Boyd, rodmaker. However, since the fishing here is still out on winter vacation, the wet grass is all it’s seeing!
There’s plenty. You could go on forever before making a decison!
But I’ll put in my vote for Harry Boyd of Louisiana. He’s building me an 8′ 7-wt right now. See his work at http://www.canerods.com. Harry makes a fabulous stick, and his work is nationally respected.
I’m not the greatest caster…I get by and have a good time. I haven’t had that problem, for sure. It’d have to be a one in a million chance to get a hook into the furled leader, but I guess it’s possible.
If you get a wind knot, now, it is harder to get it loose. But I find the leaders are less wind-knot prone.
Hope this helps.
Started using them late last year. Now, bear in mind I’m fishing warmwater and stillwater, with my smallest tippet size being 4x. I do, however, like the way they roll over very much. I use 5 1/2 foot ones which I add 3-4′ of tippet to, up to 0x if I’m bass fishing in cover. They do require a floatant if you want to fish dries, but a treatment of Mucilin works half a day in our sub-tropic climate…folks in trout water say it’ll last all day. They have zero memory.
If you happen to get a windknot, get it out quick, a downside
Thanks, man, that’s quite a compliment again, because I consider this site exceptional in design.
If you mean the boat in my site, it a bateau, the Cajun-French interpretation of the French flat-bottomed boat of Europe. My father built that boat in 1962, and I still have it and use it today in addition to my other boats. He built many, many of them as a sideline for extra money, for folks all over the southeast.
I am only a dozen miles or so from the coast, but have been redfishing only a few times, unsuccessfully thus far. I’m much more at home in the Atchafalaya River Basin with bass, bluegill and crappie.
If you ever get this way, we’ll head out into the basin for some fishing and photog’in. I love to bring my Nikon with me anytime I go out.
Didn’t mean to hijack your thread. Briefly, we’re in south-central Louisiana, on the Chitimacha nation, and no, I don’t build rods but I’ve refinished a few old Montys and South Bends. I prefer cane but fish graphite too. Check out my website if you get a chance. It’s in my profile here. I’ve lurked on this board awhile now. 🙂
Thanks for the compliment! Here’s a broad view of the room:
The desk in the foreground is for fly tying, but at the time the pic was taken you can see I was refinishing an old bamboo rod. The crafts in the background are my father’s (we are Chitimacha Tribal) and sit on a huntboard I built our of antique Douglas fir.
It’s my safe little haven. 🙂
Here’s what I did. It’s smaller than you designed, as you can see. Again, the back slot is kinda “universal” and at the moment is holding some antiques I’m reworking. It’s hard to see the felt in the round holes because I used a color that matched the wood as closely as possible, but it’s in there. I built the rod racks last spring (I have another in the opposite corner for non-fly tackle) in advance of sanding and refinishing the floors this spring.
I took pics…I’ll have to wait until I get to the office in the morning to get them off my D100.
I drilled 5 holes to hold tubes, but I also left an open space against one wall. The rack is in a corner but not diagonal. With the long slot in the back I can use it for either additional tubes, for rod/reel combo cases, or even long guns.
I’ll put it up tomorrow.
Zach,
Roughly what I built, except it’s built of cypress into a corner of the room. I used a door knob “hole saw” in a drill to make the holes, as you noted. Works great. If you line the holes with felt it’ll save wear and tear on tubes.
Best,
RStouff
Louisiana
