In this post:
1) Final Planing

After a long fishing hiatus, I finally returned to making my first bamboo fly rod. I’m pleased to say, I have officially completed final planing and my rod is ready for glue.

I don’t think it’s possible to overstate the importance of final planing in making bamboo fly rods. Final planing is everything. All the work that comes before final planing is mere prologue. Everything that follows is simply epilogue. This IS the art...

Trapping will be here in November.start getting ready!

From The Times

August 12, 2009




Charles Bremner in Paris







div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited {color:#06c;} It is not quite a return to the days when dolphins and even whales were seen making their way upstream to Paris, but the Seine is welcoming back at least one long-lost visitor: the Atlantic salmon....

Well, I have wrapped up my '09 Red River trip. We spent a week in the Drayton area and as luck would have it, during the catfish spawn.

The fishing was extrememly slow the entire trip and started to heat up a little on our last day. The most fish boated a day between our two boats was 6! The largest fish caught (not by me) was 22lbs.

The fishing was tough and the fish were only doing takes similar to what you would expect a 8" bullhead to do, detection was key...

Got this critter buy surprise! Had to get a second opinion by Daryl B. and he confirmed that it was an Orangespotted Sunfish. We caught two that day at a local Sandpit. The state record is 3 oz. and this one looks close to that size. Nope, don't have my 50 species control device for this one but I will put it on anyway. You will just have to believe me.