Fishing with Fiberglass Fly Rods

Fishing a Pd with a dt on a 67

feeds@kickapps.com (Holdover) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:07:33 PST

I got a chance last week to test out a Berkley PD40 that one of the board users was kind enough to sell me, thanks! A buddy and I fished a central Valley tailwater (ca.) for the better part of a day in the pouring rain, it was awsome.

The catching was good, both numbers and size but the really cool part was fishing gear that was new to me and the relizations that came with useing it. I used a Martin 67a that came with an old 6wt dt. line. It ballanced nicely about two and a half inches down from the top of the cork. Before this I had only lawn cast dt's and used 6wts on still waters. Wow, way more efective for nymph type fishing than useing lighter wieght forward lines.
The Martin I have had for a while but have always chosen other less mechanical ,smoother seeming reels. I know better now, Iv'e come to think of the Martin as functionaly smooth if that makes sense.
The PD40 was nice too but it was the outfit as a whole that made it a blast. Done rambling,...

Pictures...

feeds@kickapps.com (Holdover) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:02:53 PST

I've been thinking of posting pictures of some the gear you enablers have influenced me to buy. Never done it before so I thought I would do a practice post first. Crossing fingers...

Riffle rods

feeds@kickapps.com (jeva) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:32:50 PST

I love fishing north central PA and usually stop in Phills shop twice a year. Phills shop is what I imagine when I think of a fly shop, think old school. I purchased two of his glass blanks so far a 6'10" that had an accident and is now 6'5" and the 7'3" 4pc that is becoming one of my favorite glass trout rods. I haven't heard many speak of the 4pc so I thought I throw in my 2 cents. This rod is very smooth with plenty of back bone. It will fish the minutia too a size 6 woolybugers. It will land a good size fish quickly and being a 4 pc its very handy. I like it with a 5wf. This rod my Cliffs days worth fly box and my licence and I'm good to go.

first catch of the year

feeds@kickapps.com (dannyboy) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:16:55 PST

Small pond fishing .Caught this little guy on a #10 gurgler . It was about 37 degress outside water temp low 40's. Sorry my glass rod is in need of repair, thats my scierra 4wt.

This is a stream i found about 25 miles north of boston. The guy fishing is my buddy Steve

That bridge actually has no road access . Its a old dirt road in the woods used for emergencies.

7' WONDEROD

feeds@kickapps.com (jeva) — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:05:02 PST

I just picked up a 7' wonderod Professional FY910 EFL maroon wraps black spiral tipping and matching maroon reel seat. This is one of the better looking wonderods I've seen, any comments on lines or fishing experience? Thank Jim

Next season's pike rod - hardy #10

feeds@kickapps.com (taniwha2) — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:36:37 PST

I've been after this one or an SA system 10 a while and finally scored a bargain - on the last day of the 2009/10 UK pike season so wiggle only for now.
Hardy fibalite 9'3#10 including extension butt ('fisher' blank)
Red wraps and coffee coloured spigot (new colour scheme to me)
F/X dates Jan 1977 so one of the last of the range just after Hardy started on graphite

Mark

Line for Heddon Pal and bamboo rod?

feeds@kickapps.com (Teacher Preacher) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:02:10 PST

I have a Heddon Pal #8457-MARK IV, the line code is: CHCH-GBF? Where can I find a conversion table from letters to numbers for line?
Also I'm wanting to use my 9' bamboo rod that my Father stuck in my two hands when I was 6 years old. I learned to fly fish with this rod but had to two hand it, it was so heavy for me. It has a fairly fast tip, (has 3 sections) but no markings on rod. Could anyone give me a guesstiment as to what would be the best line for such a rod? I will be using it for bluegills.
Thanks much for your help.

Real Hardy?.....don't you believe it

feeds@kickapps.com (wb4tjh) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:03:22 PST

I have been wanting a smaller shoulder bag, so I ordered a Hardy Brook bag. Well, it came today, and it looks like pretty nice quality. But deep inside I found a sewn-in label that said: Made in China. We had better support our American rod and tackle makers, or this will be the future of all our fishing equipment. I think it's pretty sad.

South Fork Classic vs. Native Brookies

feeds@kickapps.com (featherlite) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:25:37 PST

WARNING>>>> Toad at bottom of report....

Just got back from a great couple of days on the water. I managed to get 3 days out of 5 dedicated to pure brookie fishing, and my new little south fork 1-2 weight glass rod got a workout for sure. I think I found the perfect park rod, as a 9 inch brookie feels like a salmon on the thing....

The first day found me on an easily accessible highway-side stream. It was a relatively slow day with only 20 or so fish landed, with the majority being found in the upper 1/4 of the stream. The drought did it's damage, and thats a fact, but I caught enough to make things interesting....

Some advice from the sages...

feeds@kickapps.com (austrout) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:01:12 PST

I have just been checking the new Hardy Fly Fishing Glass Fly Rod Brook 3wt 6ft 0in 2pc on that auction site. The price seems reasonable and, although I would prefer a 4-piece, I am intrigued. Down here we fish a lot of very small streams and this rod length and weight would be great. Have a NOS (tags still on it!) 3.5 inch Young's PRIDEX for which I have been looking for a role in my fishing armory and this rod might just be the one + I am dying to try fishing glass again after a multi-decade break! Have any of you fished these rods or received reports from mates, etc.? Appreciate the assistance. Cheers from Down Under.

lamiglas n wild tarpon in the morning

feeds@kickapps.com (Brawn Tailor) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:49:17 PST

the 1st tarpon caught on my custom lamiglas 3# 7f on history place in malacca

A little tilapia.......... hook up damsel

big mouth tarpon

First Fish on my tadpole rod

feeds@kickapps.com (wekiva) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:34:45 PST

I caught 9 blue tilapia (Oreochromis aureus) today on my tadpole rod that I built from a Batson e-glass UL spinning blank.

I'm dying...

feeds@kickapps.com (kayak rick) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:47:55 PST

I have two new glass rods to fish. I finally get a window with no work and it's gonna rain. I'm not talking "put a Gore-tex jacket on and go fish" rain, but torrential, stream flooding rain. I just wanna try my new toys!

Fenwick FL7

feeds@kickapps.com (jeva) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:04:36 PST

I just scored a fenwick FL7 at the local TU cabin fever show. Lawn casted today with both dt7 and wf8 rod seemed to like both. seems like a great rod for both large and small mouth and carp. Any one have experience with this rod?

Reel Questions

feeds@kickapps.com (bigfin56) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:04:35 PST

Hello all, I'm brand new as registered to the forum and am trying to learn all I can. I have visited, read posts, and drooled over pictures consistently for about a year now. I've been trying to learn and have had nothing to contribute so this is my first post.

I've become enamored of older spring and pawl reels the last few years. I've changed back to clickers for many of my graphite rods and have been looking for the right reels for 3 older rods (1 glass and 2 cane) I have. I know many of you read and post on the Classic Cane forum also. I'm wondering if I should post my questions there as well. I'm hoping your collective wisdom can help. Here are the rods and questions.

Bamboo 7'6" 5 wt. My father built it and said it's best with a 5 line. I agree, a 4 felt too light. I used an Orvis CFO III on it but I think it's too small for a 5 wt. line and way too light for this rod....

Largest glass rod I fish ... being fished

feeds@kickapps.com (taniwha2) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:37:58 PST

It has been a cold (for UK) and wet winter this year, and end-of-season pre-spawn piking is running late. So when a dry week ends sunny, its time to embrace la madrugada and hit the road to blow out the cabin fever

Best piking is dawn and dusk, but today on the River Stour (Dorset) it was a bit too cold early on

Heading out tommorow

feeds@kickapps.com (featherlite) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:45:16 PST

Close to 4 feet of snow here in the blue ridge mountains of Virginia has put a hurting on my fishing this winter. I am heading out early tommorow morning for a weeks straight fishing for brook trout in Shenandoah National Park. The snow is disspearing fast, and temperatures will hit the 60's in the daytime this week! Should be ideal! I have caught some wild rainbows on the little south fork 2 weight pearow built me up. Now it's time for the real show, and get some brookies on this nice little glass rod!

I will take lots of pictures, please stay tuned to the blog for updates when I get back. No more cabin fever!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://snpfiberglassflyfishing.blogspot.com/

H&H Hi-Float vs. Cortland Sylk

feeds@kickapps.com (BlueDunn) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:54:37 PST

Hi-

I'm trying to narrow my line choice down and have noticed that both of these lines seem to be fairly popular. I'll be fishing a Steffen 5 weight and a 3 weight but am not sure which of these two lines may work better with those rods. What has your experience been with these 2 lines? Seems like the H&H have a good following (and a good price), but so do the Cortland lines.

Thanks,
S

If I Coud Have A Trout In Malaysia

feeds@kickapps.com (tengas) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:34:10 PST

Me, Al and others Amir and Radzi having a dry fly fishing today...
Thank you guys and i really having fun today....

So Me, Al and Amir start to cast a variant of dry fly....after a couple of hours, i decide to do some nymphing while Radzi is already far away from us...

while...

Comments on certain lines?

feeds@kickapps.com (Upstreeam) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:34:22 PST

I notice that many here are attentive to nuances in lines, more than I am. Winter fundraisers usually produce a bunch of flies for me, but this year I've ended up with the following lines. One or two may get passed on for other fundraisers or something (it seems sometimes that without "re-gifting," the bucket raffles would be cut in half), but a couple are interesting. So if anyone has an experience to share, any and all comments are welcome.

1) Cortland 555 "Convertible Dyna Tip" DT4F
2) Orvis Silver Label Hy-Flote WF4F
3) AirFlo Ridgeline Tactical Trout Power Core WF4F
4) Triangle Taper TT 3I

Clearly, I shouldn't have to buy a 4 wt. line for a bit. The TT is the one that is the oddest to me. I guess I need to find a farm pond for that?

Bob