Tim Pommer
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This trailer makes the hairs on my neck stick straight up every time I watch it. Cant wait to see the film tour version!
Sage has one of mine right now and I dont expect to see it for a few months. Luckily I have two equally sufficient rods that fill the void.
I did, however, recently break my new favorite muskie rod, the Scott Pike-Muskie Special. I sent it to Scott and immediately got a response AND was promised by their repair dept that it would return before this weekend – which will probably be my last weekend to fish. Considering that Scott is probably up to their nose in building pre-season orders for this rod, I sure do appreciate them cutting into production in order to allow me to hopelessly fling fur at some fish one last time before 8 months of off-season.
Not only that, but in my return letter I suggested that they ad a 40″ marker on the rod – like they do with 12″ and 20″ on bigger the G2 rods. Their response “no problem.”
Now that is service!
While I will pay top dollar for “real tools” in my woodshop, I don’t like to pay high dollar for crap I’ll eventually drop in the drink.
HA! Truth.
Zach, have you shaved yet?
Yeah, totally off topic I know….But your face is all over this thread and it made me think about you needing to shave.
To me the ideal way to use a boga to weigh a fish is with one of those net cradles, or even just a laundry-style mesh bag.
I wonder why those good ole boys from Esataboga Alabama would let their patent run out? Seems like they had a good thing going?
Is it possible that they made money from other companies wanting to get into this line of products?Patents have a 20 year life cycle – which after the legal garbage, usually only last about 15 years.
Boga’s patent is at the 20 year mark – so they may have run out but what’s more likely is the company figured out a way around it. Not too hard to do to be honest – I did it once for the boga design in a class in grad school. Check it out yourself:
http://www.google.com/patents?id=hEgnAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=falseI still dont understand the point of a boga though. Isnt it proven that holding a fish vertically is the worst thing you can do to it aside from shoving your hands in its gills? And isnt that the way you get a weight reading with a boga?
The SA Galloup sinking Streamer Express line is not sold by line weight it is sold by grain weight. The 200 grain line is designed for six and seven weight rods.
If that is the line you have it should fish well on a seven weight rod.
Agreed.
