You know you have too many flyrods when....

Re: You know you have too many flyrods when....

feeds@yuku.com (Dewardian) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:10:41 GMT

I suggested to a friend that he catalog his rods........ To get an accurate list of what he had. There was a week or so of phone calls, telling me that he had found a few more Homer Jennings rods, then a few Jennings/Moran rods, and then a few days later some Moran rods and blanks. All unfished.

My suggestion to his wife, was that for the next few birthdays and Christmases that she go down into the basement, select a tube and wrap the gift accordingly. He will be amazed to...

Re: You know you have too many flyrods when....

feeds@yuku.com (wb4tjh) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:16:51 GMT

....When you find rods in the back of a dark closet that you either don't remember buying, or thought you had sold or traded off years before.

Re: You know you have too many flyrods when....

feeds@yuku.com (darrelll) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:58:30 GMT

I'm planning to sell all my Heddon rods including a #1000, #50, #35 2x and multiple rods of all the other grades, then all my Grangers, Phillipsons and my South Bends and then hoping I can get my collection to under 200 rods but knowing that just selling every one from those makers I'll probably still have over 300 rods!

Will I miss them??? Hell, I have so many I don't even remember them...

I know I have too many rods when... I found a circa 1870 Orvis that I...

Re: You know you have too many flyrods when....

feeds@yuku.com (Golfswithwolves) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:02:32 GMT

...when you die. But then somebody else has to worry about it.

Re: You know you have too many flyrods when....

feeds@yuku.com (Dewardian) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:29:22 GMT

This is a terrible thread............
For the more competitive among us, there will never be enough rods/time/money.
Benny Hill said , "If one isn't enough, a thousand isn't too many". I know he was thinking of fly rods.
When I just fish one rod........ I think I catch more fish. Why don't I do it?
A friend came over to look at a rod, to check the color of the blueing, and I couldn't find the rod. Had I lent it to someone, mixed it in among the...

Re: You know you have too many flyrods when....

feeds@yuku.com (cebfishing) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:45:49 GMT

I agree that you can not have too many rods. I have 261 catalogued and a couple laying around that need to be added. My biggest problem is deciding which rods to take when I go fishing. I have a couple I always want to take along, but also want to try each of those in good condition. Fortunately, my wife knows I could have much worse hobbies and is quite understanding. Also, shortly after a new rod arrives, there is a significant increase in quilting material that I must step around.
Chuck

Re: You know you have too many flyrods when....

feeds@yuku.com (TheMontyMan) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:07:18 GMT

Lately, I've been trying to catch up on cataloging my rods, since I've gotten a little behind. My records show a few more than 150 rods, but I did a physical count one evening a couple months ago. It took 2 glasses of wine and over an hour and a half to find that I had 204 rods here, and another 8 on their way, or out for repairs. It was sure fun re-discovering some of my rods that I hadn't seen for a while!

While I was sorting through them, I selected a dozen or so...

Re: You know you have too many flyrods when....

feeds@yuku.com (OldCanerods) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:19:29 GMT

Marty wrote:
Gentlemen I would humbly submit that there is positively no such thing as too many rods Mr JZ sir I would suggest you simply have an organizational challenge never ever ever would I believe that there is any possibility of too many rods.......... too little time to fish ...perhaps..... not enough storage space .......

Re: You know you have too many flyrods when....

feeds@yuku.com (Marty) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:40:39 GMT

Gentlemen I would humbly submit that there is positively no such thing as too many rods Mr JZ sir I would suggest you simply have an organizational challenge never ever ever would I believe that there is any possibility of too many rods.......... too little time to fish ...perhaps..... not enough storage space .... perhaps..... but never too many rods

Re: You know you have too many flyrods when....

feeds@yuku.com (j2t) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:38:51 GMT

A friend of mine said that multi-rod cases were the best thing ever invented...made it harder for his
significant other to figure out how rods he actually had.

-Jared

Re: You know you have too many flyrods when....

feeds@yuku.com (HERMES2069) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:09:34 GMT

When your friends keep asking you "how many Bamboo rods do have anyway"?
I seem to forget a few.
Phil

Re: You know you have too many flyrods when....

feeds@yuku.com (pvansch1) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:50:23 GMT

When the fly rod count = the wifes pair shoes count, you might have enough fly rods.

And as a few of the wise men of this forum have stated in the past, never ever store all of your rods in one place where they can be counted by someone else.

Re: You know you have too many flyrods when....

feeds@yuku.com (jeffkn1) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:01:08 GMT

I used to log my rods into an Access database. Including parts rods it was on the north side of 175 as of sometime in 2008, but I think it's below 150 now. Problem is, now I can't even find the database......

Re: You know you have too many flyrods when....

feeds@yuku.com (bow river) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:49:53 GMT

your wife's lawyer decides they should belong to her.

thats good , to many rods to me is when you have to spend to much time thinking of which one for the day and what reel you should put on it , and i'm at the point now

Re: You know you have too many flyrods when....

feeds@yuku.com (leatherneck) — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:28:53 GMT

...your wife's lawyer decides they should belong to her.

Re: You know you have too many flyrods when....

feeds@yuku.com (bamboocollector11) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:17:49 GMT

I know what you mean. Someone e-mails you for pics of a fly rod that you know you have, your pretty sure you didn't sell it or trade it off, and even though all your fly rods are located in only 2 locations in the house it takes you over 1/2 and hour to find the right rod anyway. Or even worse, after searching for a rod for over 1/2 an hour you finally find that the rod you are looking for you took out of the closet and the tube is one of many sitting in the corner of you computer/rod...

You know you have too many flyrods when....

feeds@yuku.com (jz2) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:12:53 GMT

I had a beautifully restored Bristol Edwards f7 8.5, plus an unrestored twin. I can find them anywhere. They may be in the under floor storage of an suv that I sold 2 years ago. Or I might have left them at a bamboo get-together. Or they're still somewhere in the house. In the course of the search, I re-discovered an old SA reel, plus a graphite rod. The bottom line - I have too much stuff to keep track of.