I was going to ask you about the domestic reaction to the Crask / flight booking cock up, but forgot. Still got all your dangly bits then? :lol:
Strangely enough I was thinking along the same lines as you and was considering a 10 ft #5 for next season. As you say though the bugger is all the other stuff, lines, reels etc. I am not sure what to go for but Mr Liddle tells me he had a cast with 10ft Scierra (spellng?) that his pal Magnus was reviewing for FF+FT a few issues back and it was a dandy. I think it was sub ?200, so it is not too bad for a quality rod.
If ?the boat comes in? before the start of the season I may invest. I can always blame Liddle if it is crap and stand on his #5 B+W next we are out.
Accidentally of course. :lol:
I got a nice 4pc 4/5 8ft travel rod from" tackle bargains" on line it was ?34 with postage its benn good rod , shakespeare do the oberon series of travel rods at not bad prices,mullarkeys do the millend flylines at very cheap prices so yo only have to change the line or like me and pocaman get a leeda lc reel and loads of spare spools 8) breac
8) Got no beef with the lc,s I've had a 6lb grilse on mine with an 8ft normark( which i have just swapped for a farlow sharp 8ft-5in Parabolic on impregnated cane I am hoping to get a go at it next season), call me thrawn but I like small rods, I had a david norwich that was a lovely rod but not a great loch for hill loch bashing, I have also just restored a farlows sawyer parabolic still water made by Pezon et Michel, thats a 9-6in
and I might even give that a go, Its a bit of a change from the Jap cane rod I brought back from the MN and started fly fishing with, I still have bits of one left, 8) breac
:) Yes guest thats the one I have found mine to work better with a dt 5
but a great wee rod, I have made a nice tube from our local plumbing suppliers bits for ?3 its white with self adhesive aluminium foil at each end this one's not going to get away, I was thinking of a satellite tracking system but people would laugh, seriously its a great wee rod at a really affordable price, it shows you dont have to pay fortune to get a nice rod
:) breac
Swithun
You might find this article interesting, about ? way down the page.
http://www.activeangler.com/articles/flyfishing/articles/doug_macnair/rods3.asp
Try this one.
(http://www.ftscotland.co.uk\gallery\flies\gallows_tool.jpg)
(Thats my home made gallows tool that's attached to it for tying parachute flies)
Going cheap here.
http://www.tacklebargains.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Fly_Tying_86.html
I have the clamp one.
Right Sandy, I confess, you have got me here. What is that gizmo for? How does it work? :lol:
When tying parachute flies you need a post and when tying the hackle round it you want the post taught, that is what this is for.
The paper clip is hanging from an elastic band to give this tension.
When using a loop of nylon as the post you hook the paper clip through it and adjust the height of the wire gallows, that is made from an old wire coat hanger, to increase the tension by moving the clothes peg up the vice. There is an elastic band wrapped round the gallows tool to stop it sliding through the hole in the peg.
If you use fibre for the post then you hang your hackle pliers on the paper clip and catch the fibre post in these adjusting the height and tension the same way.
Winding the hackle round a taught post makes it easier to tie, you just pass the hackle from hand to hand behind the hook as you tie.
HTH.
Now that is smart and I now realise why I have been having difficulty trying parachutes. Thanks Sandy!
This is the manufactred model :)
(http://store1.yimg.com/I/yagers_1817_2528656.jpg)
You might be interested in this Fred.
http://www.members.tripod.com/Invictaflies/id203.htm
Sandy, this is exactly the way I have tied small parachutes. Using poly yarn to from the wing and the post, putting a small drop of super-glue at the base of the wing at the point I am gong to wind the hackle round, this makes a solid post. I think I got the tip out of T+S magazine.
:) I was interested in your parchute flies Sandy, the first time i learned to
tie these it was by using the thick end of the hackle as the post, tied in vertically and then winding the hackle round that, I cant remember where I read that but it may have been in one of Bill Davies books, but I still ddo them that way when I use them 8) Breac
I haven't come across that method before. I have seen it done by using the cut off end of the stock, splitting it part way up and splaying out the ends along the shank and tying it in that way, then tying in the rest of the hackle seperately. Everybody has a favourite way of doing things and if it works keep doing it and if it doesn't try something else till you find the way that suits, even invent your own if that is what it takes, how else would fly tying progress if no one tryed it first :)