Lightweight rod/line needed

[Wildfisher]

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:

[breac]

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   breac

[breac]

 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,   breac

[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

[Fishtales]

Swithun

  You might find this article interesting, about ? way down the page.

http://www.activeangler.com/articles/flyfishing/articles/doug_macnair/rods3.asp

[Fishtales]

Try this one.



(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.

[Wildfisher]

Right Sandy, I confess, you have got me here. What is that gizmo for? How does it work?  :lol:

[Fishtales]

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.

[Wildfisher]

Now that is smart and I now  realise why I have been having difficulty trying parachutes. Thanks Sandy!

[Fishtales]

This is the manufactred model