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Posts: 1307 04/10/2009 08:55 |
Here's another from the Rappahannock, using a Pickard 8026 Guide with a 3 3/4" Hardy St. George (that winds on the correct side, RPL
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Paul, give a shout when you get back East and maybe we can finally do the shad thing together. 
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 afgantrout |
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Posts: 509 04/10/2009 10:59 |
Mr. Grouse....give me a call and we can perhaps cane some hickories together! I got six nice ones on the James on Wednesday, but last night was a bust.
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Posts: 184 04/10/2009 17:28 |
S. Grouse: Nice action shot. I guess the 3 3/4" St. George is becoming the shad's worst nightmare. (As for the right-hand/left-hand thing, who was it
that said correctness is in the eye of the holder?) BTW hope you're about to release that poor fish and not chomp into it. Looks disturbingly like someone
contemplating shad sushi for lunch!
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Posts: 51 04/10/2009 18:13 |
Howard, you're deep in it now buddy!
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afgantrout |
THE JAMES CHIMES IN | #345 | ||
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Posts: 511 04/11/2009 11:01 |
I promised myself to learn to cast this lovely Shenandoah Spey by Chris Bogart...by fishing nothing else on the James this year. I believe I'm
slowly getting the feel of it! It's a wonderful rod...I'm just a slow learner! The rod is 12' for 6/7 and Chris built it...nodeless! The
reel is a 4" Farlow's BWP. Last evening I caught this one acrobatic hickory while my neighbor caught 20 on spoons. But I was content...I'd done
it "the old fashioned way"!
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Cadnorods |
Easter Sunday on the River Usk, Monmouthshire... | #346 | ||
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Posts: 187 04/12/2009 11:55 |
Farlow 3" 'Perfect' with silk line on a Farlow 8' 2/1....this morning on the Usk, bothering native brownies with the dry Dark Olive...
Stuart 
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FWdB |
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Posts: 351 04/13/2009 03:53 |
Beautiful pictures Stuart, makes me want to cross the pond immediately!
Oh well, in about a months time my holiday to Northern England and Scotland starts. Can't wait! 
Wilfred de Bruijn
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Cadnorods |
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Posts: 189 04/13/2009 13:58 |
Wilf,
You don't want to go that far north...they're all heathens up there...mad as a box of frogs. And it's not summer yet so they are still on only 2 hours of daylight. Save travelling time and come to Wales instead... Stuart |
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Posts: 4 04/13/2009 14:23 |
Nice older Beaudex meets Oklahoma mud.
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Posts: 352 04/13/2009 14:40 |
Cadnorods wrote:  Wales will certainly be a future holiday destination. I love the
British isles, and not just for fishing!
Wilfred de Bruijn
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Flykuni2 |
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Posts: 53 04/13/2009 17:58 |
Top, my 2 9/16 c. 40s St. George, mounted on a 7 1/2' Goodwin Granger Special. Below, Spruce's 8' F.E. Thomas (model I don't recall) with some Frenchy-sounding reel, not a reissue. |
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afgantrout |
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Posts: 513 04/13/2009 18:55 |
THardy - That is one handsome outfit...and a stunning white bass. I do like a Beaudex! Who made that fine rod?
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Posts: 5 04/13/2009 19:34 |
afgantrout wrote: Thank you for the kind words. That's the first rod I made, nine years ago. It's a PHY Perfectionist clone. If you could see it in person, I'd be embarrassed. I never got the tips really straight and I was so excited about getting it done and fishing it that they are still kind of funky. But what a great taper! I very much admire your art. Thanks. |
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afgantrout |
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Posts: 514 04/13/2009 22:10 |
thardy wrote: So, THARDY...I assume that's not your portrait on your avatar photo. Thanks for your kind words. I guess everyone has an ideal of how a rod and reel should compliment each other. I know I spend far too much time selecting the very reel to go with this rod. No, I don't think it's like matching shoes with a purse...but I feel it is important. BTW the white bass is on of 26 species I painted for VA Dept of F & G for their Citation program and in painting it, I learned of its piscitorial perfection in form...close to salmonids, but different!
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Well, I do the same thing. | #355 | ||
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Posts: 6 04/13/2009 22:48 |
Worrying about matching up rods with reels. I have a Sage graphite blank from 1982 that I never built up and I'm stressing about what reel to put on it.
Now that's bad! Not even a cane rod!
The whole Whitebass/Striper family is a wonderful bunch of fishes. |
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bow river |
tough dirty day of fishing | #356 | ||
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Posts: 1313 04/14/2009 01:45 |
had forum member WLYBGR , vaughn , out for a trip today on the mighty bow , was the most nasty and dirty day for weather
Richard
Check out my web site for vintage reels & rods , guided float trips on canada's # 1 best trout river http://bowriveradventures.googlepages.com/home |
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seabass14 |
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Posts: 199 04/14/2009 02:40 |
Nice fish there Vaughn and Rich. Hope you saved a few for me. Can't wait for a week and a half!!!!
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Posts: 1314 04/14/2009 03:02 |
seabass
dan , you bring some nice muddlers and some rubber leg stones and you'll be fighting to keep them off your line , see you in a week , the weather should be alot warmer by then hows my quad coming
Richard
Check out my web site for vintage reels & rods , guided float trips on canada's # 1 best trout river http://bowriveradventures.googlepages.com/home |
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afgantrout |
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Posts: 516 04/14/2009 10:23 |
Richard, Great pictures! But those icebergs in the background and your description of the weather bring to mind lyrics from that great tune by Ian
Tyson..."Springtime in Alberta"!
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Soft Hackle |
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Posts: 1231 04/14/2009 10:39 |
Ian Tyson is some singer, I saw him in a small club last Summer and at age 74 he sings cowbot songs like Marty Robbins. Geat songwriter as well who has penned
some classics ( Someday Soon, Four Strong Winds etc.).
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, what i call a ''all season day '' started sunny for 30
min , then wind blew so hard we had to hunker down behind the ice shelf to stay warm , then the snow came next , then sunshine and what the heck ''
rain'' , every time we just about call it a day we'd get another nice fish so we'd stay again ,
and that ol medalist
reel was screaming ,
