Fishing Rod Blank

This is an exiting new rod to come from the Hardy Greys stable and Jeff gives it a once over before it gets a full testing.

I don't care how good your rods are; you will have problems with them over the years. Tips break, eyes and ceramic inserts work loose, and handles come unglued. It's a fact of life that we all live with from time to time.

The first fly rod I constructed was a salt water fly rod; it was a G Loomis two-piece 9-foot-9 weight blank made of graphite.

Steve Moss likes to get away from it all when he goes fly fishing. The Spokane angler’s favorite destinations are beyond the distractions of traffic and crowds to shorelines where he’s encountered wild turkeys, ospreys, bald eagles, great blue herons, waterfowl, marmots, beavers, deer, moose – and even a cougar. “All of that without even leaving town,” he said, sorting through a fly box while ...

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Jeff Woodhouse reviews a pike rod designed for boat fishing and plans on its possible use from the bank also.

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