Fishin'

[twowheels]

love fishing. Going to Mongolia in a couple weeks for a 7 day taiman float.untitled.jpgIMG_4701.jpgIMG_4691.jpgIMG_4708.jpg


Some action from the last 9 months.

[twowheels]

more…….

[twowheels]

Mongolian Taiman. I recently had the privilege of fishing Northern Mongolia and it was a fly fisherman's dream.

[mnoble485]

We need more than one picture from a trip to Mongolia. Travelogue from wheels up please.

Mike

[steve garro]

We need more than one picture from a trip to Mongolia. Travelogue from wheels up please.

Mike

Yeah !!!
Those Taimen are crazy looking - kind of "snaky" - were there any other fish species to be caught?

Japan has some gorgeous trout, and the Kamchatka.........lordy...........

- Garro.

[twowheels]

We also caught lots of big lenuk and grayling, really as many as we wanted, but we only had the 5wts in hand briefly as taiman were the main goal. I'll try to post up more pictures before I head out to cycle Oregon in a couple days.

[steve garro]

Colorado re-discovers San Juan cutthroat trout long thought to be extinct


- Garro.

[Paul Jacobs]

[guido]

Not a trout...



Still fun on a 6wt with a 5x tippet...

[mg2ride]

Pretty much gave up riding for fishing the past few years. All saltwater, some via motor boats but mostly via Kayaks. Lining up my primary retirement hobby. Mostly Stick to the inlets and very calm water vice more open water of the Chesapeake Bay like I did in my late 20s. I have an extra Yak if anyone visits Va Beach.

Summer of 2019 was a Spanish Frenzy. The bigger one jump in my yak without being hooked.


Fall 2019 was all about Gator Trout


Fall 2020 was all about nice Puppy Drum

[guido]

[ColonelJLloyd]

Sumbuck, that is purdy!

[guido]

18" Brown

[Paul Jacobs]

Just finished a new seven foot rod in time for the start of the UK river trout season.

[guido]

[guido]

Just finished a new seven foot rod in time for the start of the UK river trout season.

Stunning! I really dig the elegant simplicity. Did you make the blank too?

[classtimesailer]

Just finished a new seven foot rod in time for the start of the UK river trout season

Finished? How did it start? Beautiful. Dig the pin in the reel seat cap. No glue?

[Paul Jacobs]

Thank you Guy and Jeff for your kind comments.

I did not make the blank. It is an impregnated cane blank, based on a Payne 98 taper, from the long established English firm Chapmans which I bought in 2016 just as the business was closing.

When I was a school boy my passions were fishing and cycling and it was my ambition to build my own bike frame and split my own cane for a fishing rod. I have now built several steel bike frames but it looks as though the creation of a bamboo rod blank will remain unfulfilled.

I did, however, machine the ferrules and reel seat hardware myself out of aluminium bronze, sometimes called naval bronze. It is stronger than the more traditional nickel silver and I like the colour. It will gradually oxidise and become more brown over time. For the wooden part of the reel seat I used a piece of mahogany given to me by my late father, who died just over a year ago. It seemed a nice way to remember him.

Well spotted! The butt cap is glued in place with quick-set epoxy but the pin is just pushed through from side to side and not glued so the butt cap could be removed by knocking the pin out and using a bit of heat to soften the glue.

Because the cane is impregnated, no varnish or other surface treatment is needed. I treated the silk with a few light coats of water based acrylic varnish which I think is more in keeping with the matt finish of the cane than a traditional varnish or epoxy coating.

It works really well as a rod, as a Payne 98 should, but I have yet to catch any fish with it.

[guido]

A grand slam...

[guido]

Wild Brook Trout in NH