Hey Fly Fishers.....I Need Some Field Testers!

[rgfixit]

$12 a piece is why I learned to make them Matt. I'm basically a cheap SOB. Rather pay myself for something than someone else.

What started me thinking about these again was a trip to the stream with the little  2 wt the other day. It's a 6'6" IM-6  2 wt.  I was having some trouble with the 4' furled leader I had on the little rod. It just wasn't right. So,  decided to make a couple 3' for it. They worked out great. I was rolling over those tiny Adirondack dries like feathers in the wind.

Yesterday I was looking at the little wood shop and thinking that I could make them out to 20' and in any number of reductions with the space I have there. So......I'm planning some Tenkara lines.

The vision is a t-slotted jig in 8' sections with adjustable posts. That way I can vary the rates of reduction to provide heavier butt or tip sections for specific styles of fishing. For example, you nymph fishers might like a leader that has a lighter, sinking tip and a heavier floating butt to help get the nymph down in the water column. I make a lot of mine with orange or chartreuse butt sections to act as an indicator. Just add a bit of payette paste to the butt section and they float all day.

A mind is a terrible thing

I'm heading out to check my mulberry trees in a little while. I'm dying to feel one of those carp smash a fly and take off for Buffalo

Rg

[rgfixit]

Not much going on yesterday. Mulberries are a week away, or so it seems. Nothing much else other than a few big gills and one smallmouth.

Gave a guy from work a casting lesson this morning. That was interesting. If I wrote list of everything you just don't do when fly casting, he did them all. His elbow was flailing, wrist wobbling all over the place, the arc was about 9-6 and his loops were bigger and more oddly shaped that anything I've ever seen.

The boy just ain't got no rhythm.

We'll work on it. Think I'll look for a metronome.

Rg

[rgfixit]

By the way, for those who responded, I wound up leaders today and will send them out tomorrow.

Rg

[centerpinjosh]

That you I'll let u know how they work and hopefully post some pics of some nice river smallies... Yeah never know maybe a walleye as well

[devo]

The Mulberry's were dropping all over the place at a party in Scottsville on Saturday!
*P.S., Rg, could you tie me up a fly that looks like floating Koi pellet food? I need to remove some pesky mutants from my pond.
thanks,
dEv>0

[rgfixit]

What's a koi pellet look like. I love a challenge.

Rg

[devo]

Rg, "Tetra" (brand)  Koi Vibrance is the name. I'd post a pic but can't.

[stripernut]

Glue a coffee bean to the back of a hook, that covers most pellets...

[rgfixit]

Yeah....but it makes them really nervous.

Rg

[rgfixit]

I looked at it....piece of cake

You chum.....ill bring the 8 wt.

Rg

[devo]

I looked at it....piece of cake

You chum.....ill bring the 8 wt.

Rg

That's a little heavy, these are little guys, I'm talking ice rod and number 16 hook!

[centerpinjosh]

Rg I got it in the mail today thank you so much. Hopefully I'll be able to get out and try it this next week and ill let u know

[rgfixit]

That's a little heavy, these are little guys, I'm talking ice rod and number 16 hook!

Ice Rod...hmmmmmm....ill have to build a new jig for leaders that short.

Rg

[rgfixit]

Anyone had a chance to do some field testing?

Rg

[icejohn]

Not in the mail yet.....I can wait
Icejohn