full circle

we're dusting this off and bringing it out of retirement

over better than ten years

if you've followed my struggle w/ carrying gear 

this may surprise you

I've taken care of some of my "vest" issues

note that nothing dangles from the vest

it and I will still carry too much
nor would it surprise you that I made a few small improvements (?)

it's gonna be heavy face it everything is

I can remove it and stow it on the bank as I often do anyways

plus everything I will need is in one place

and should stay there

more boxes

seems I've got at least a dozen working boxes

that's not really counting streamer boxes, bass boxes, salt boxes

I feel like rene harrop or something

this one was set up specifically for lee's ferry

ferry box incomplete w/out ridiculous thingamabobbers
(which I do not use - they just perfectly complete the picture)
spaghetti and meatballs and scuds
it's really rather gross

is there anything more lovely that is not a woman
than a box full of well tied soft hackles?

taking a close look we see that they're not so neat and orderly after all

midges and shit

boxes like this mean one thing to me

tailwaters

new school scuds?

well lookee there

it would appear as though I've lost a magnet

still works holding the spare clips

take a closer look

one of the plastic clips failed
I replaced w/ steel
which saved the magnet

opening gifts

wouldn't you like to open something like this

Christmas morning?

you know you wanna

it can happen

scud

to be continued fer sure...

attn: jerry siem re: circa flyrods

like it or not sage drives the flyrod business

and they do produce fine fishing poles

there marketing lost me years ago 

as did the trend for faster and faster rods

making casting a chore rather than a mindless simple pleasure

as goes sage others follow

one is very hard pressed these daze

to find a proper dry fly action in a modern graphite rod

the onliest one I know of is the scott g2 (want one too)

until now

I haven't been excited about a sage rod release in a century

actually it's been over a decade

they lost me when they replaced the sp

and a lotta others when they extirpated the ll line

at one point I had three sage flyrods and loved them all

so why is a bamboo rodmaker writing about effing sage?

because jerry siem has developed a retro dry fly action rod

the circa is what I'm talking about and I'm dying to fish one

I cannot afford at this point in the game to fork out sage $$$

nor can I justify buying yet another rod

so really what we have here is my desperate plea

a shoutout if you will to jerry siem and the sage team

how about cutting a brother in bamboo some slack

and let me fish that rod

I'll try a short 3wt and a long 4wt fwiw...

old school pt nimp - allwire edition

quite cool pic to boot

just because it's badass

pflueger goodyear refinish

this is a refinish project for a friend

alas I have no black silk!

which means the tip wraps are not in place

cooper's hopper

it's a beautiful day

is this the year we finally win it all?