I haven't been fishing this year. Just too busy with other projects.
The last few weeks - at the end of Summer and the fishing season, I've become obsessed with fly rods and reels - it's like a drug.
Although I have some really nice cane rods and some excellent carbon rods, I'm still after better cane and I'm still looking at expensive carbon... why oh why?
Reels are even worse. I think that I've bloged about the futility of fly reels - hey this is not Salmon fishing or Permit fishing where performance reels are really needed. We unwind our line and cast it, often not even using the reel when a fish is landed. Why then the obsession with spending a fortune on a machined masterpiece. No logic in that at all, but I still want a better one...
I'm after an authentic usable CC de France (Casting Club de France) Hardy cane rod. Between 7 and 8 feet for stream fishing. And a nice reel to go with it.
Then I'm after a Hardy Swift MkII, probably the Swift MK II 975 H00005 model that is 98mm in diameter. The Hardy Marksman 4/5 or the Marksman 5/6 would also be good with a matching nice new carbon rod.
Still dreaming ....
It was time for me to change my fly reel this year. My old reel still worked fine but after about 20 years using the same gear I felt I deserved a new fly reel.
ReplyDeleteI broke the reel in on the Cains River New Brunswick on my first two Atlantic salmon of the year.
It was also the only time I go out fly fishing this year as I was busy with new fishing friends that just aren't that into fly fishing yet.