Thanks Mike. I may take you up on your offer. Would love to spend some quality time on the small streams with bamboo. With any luck I should have some green scraped together by the end of the summer, but trying a couple different weights and tapers is smart. Thanks again.

Ben

Thanks Sarah. Sounds like this is something us boys would have figured out by now. Thanks for the vote of confidence. I’m going to need all the luck I can get.

Ben

Yeah we will be there. Might only be in town a week so we’ll have to plan something. Would love to try those secluded areas. Talk to you soon.

Ben

‘the new phone books are here! the new phone books!’

it’s always nice to see yer name. thanks for that.

buying selecting a taper and building a rod are all exercises in patience.
yer patience is rewarded smartly in the end.

when you do bite the bullet you’ll find there are things you can do w/ a sort light bamboo rods on smallstreams that you just can’t accomplish otherwise. it’s almost magic.

you liked that driggs. first rod I ever built was a driggs. under the fine tutelage of mike shay. 7′ 2″ 4/5wt. fish it anywhere in az. you’ll love it. yer welcome to use it for the coming season. take care of it. don’t do anything stupid with it.

🙂

You guys coming to the Adirondacks this summer? I’d love to show you some “private spots” on the Ausable that never get any pressure. And the fly fishing there is unbelievable.

Tony, definitely your fault. I hear you on the 3 weight. My go-to is a 3 weight TFO Finesse. Not nearly as much spine as the power matrix, but it sure can lay a soft fly on a small creek. Bamboo is something that I have always drooled over and I think I’m going to pull the trigger on it. Life is too short…

OK, I’ take the credit,(blame). I break out the bamboo once or twice a year on the West Branch, but my go to rod is my Orvis Power Matrix 3wt. It can get breezy in the notch by Whiteface, and the Matrix has got enough spine for that, and have the sensitivity of a 3 wt. Wish the flood waters would subside, it’s killing me not being out there. One more week, I think.

Ha. I know. I need a new net so I can stop giving all my flies to those fish. There is something nostalgic about the bamboo. Very fun to cast. We’ll see what the future holds.

Ben