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Started up in beginning of year, has a drawing at 100 members for the Bloke spey rod (love that name !), I have been waiting months for the drawing, at least register for the board and get in the drawing so that can be done with, I feel lucky again !!
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I see Willie Gunn is a moderator there, think he gave up on me when I admitted using my spey rod with an fly Indicator setup, which appears to be an untraditional way of using the traditional scottish spey tackle. But now that spey tackle has gone world wide who is to say what is traditional any more ?
I am registered under a different user name on this board so don't look for BG.
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If memory serves (from the UK flyfishingforum board) "Bloke Rods" are somewhat atuned to the RB Meiser rods. Each is individually made for the purchaser.
Gather they're a very nice "bit o kit."
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Oh, NO! Not another "alias" for BG!
 
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Naaa, not THIS time.
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I actually forgot which one I used on this board, its one none of you are familiar with nor will be able to identify easily.
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I actually forgot which one I used on this board, its one none of you are familiar with nor will be able to identify easily.
Yeah, sure, Hal..... If you think so.
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Just register so they do this spey rod drawing soon I have been waiting since March of this year. Makes me wonder how many spey rodders there are in Europe these days, there may be more over here in North America !! Spey Line is the only euro spey board I am aware of at this time.
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Yo! BG, We may not know your alias on Speyline.com right now but if you start talking about the "spey abyss" we will figure it out in short order. 
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Hahahaha!!
Every time that BG tries a "new alias", his style, chatter and patter gives him away. He couldn't hide in the jungle with camo!!
'nuff said!
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Hahahaha!!
Every time that BG tries a "new alias", his style, chatter and patter gives him away. He couldn't hide in the jungle with camo!!
'nuff said!
BobK
Wish I'd said this first!!
Vis a Vis spey (2-hand rod) fishing the flyfishing forum board in the UK usually has a lot going on on the topic.
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My "spey abyss" is over, LOL, I am now into the fly fishing "saltwater abyss" and the "bass abyss", always new frontiers to conquer along life's fly fishing continuum.
Just make you sure you all register on that board so we can finally get this Bloke rod drawing out of the way. Its gone on way too long.
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I have no idea how to register but I am seriously looking into some instruction from Glenda Powell!
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I have no idea how to register but I am seriously looking into some instruction from Glenda Powell!
Now I wonder why you'd say a thing like that? Given a choice, I's still go for the young lady in the House of Hardy posters. Gather she's an employee in one of their plants in the UK. 
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Has Hardy sold any more tackle due to these ads ? Not to me I can advise. Matter of fact I have no Hardy tackle.
Hope its working for them.
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Has Hardy sold any more tackle due to these ads ? Not to me I can advise. Matter of fact I have no Hardy tackle.
Hope its working for them.
BG
Talking to the Hardy folks at the Sandy River Spey 'Clave .. it's working out VERY WELL indeed. Apparently they get several hundered requests per month for a copy of their 'poster girl.'
I suspect it's working out quite 'profitably' for them; her???
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You're RIGHT, Fred.
(sigh) I guess SOME of us "just ain't got no taste, or their 'taste' is all in their mouth"! But I guess that's why he is just a lawyer, not a financial whiz or an advertising exec!
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Tut, tut .. Now, now ..at ease big fella.
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Moved to summer run fly thread
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????? I think somebody's losing it.....
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Possible, just possible.
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Well, it looks like "ol PM" had the last word. To bad we can't see it.
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Mike, I'm completely lost too on what the heck that was about. The 'gotta be a 2-hander' is the line I use under my name on the Spey Pages. So what that has to do with BG is a further loss to me. 
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PM's been in private moderation mode for over 6 months which means no one can view their posts until an ADMIN reviews and approves them. Thought PM would have figured this out by now since no one has been responding to their posts.
Internet trolls who attempt to disrupt the forumn community are not tolerated. All are remined to read the rules for this forumn posted in the sticky header above.
Now back to serious fly fishing talk .
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OK - I'll bite
I had lots of hits from small 'bows and Dollies on the wknd on a fly I picked up at the shop, but completely forgotten the name of the fly. It was a brass cone head on a long straight shank hook, with off-white fur (not polar) and a bit of flash. It drifted beautifully in the gin clear water between the boulders I was working. I had no problem picking it up and casting with the 6wt Rainshadow I built last yr. I love that rod, it's so forgiving of my thrash style.
I guess it looked like a small whitefish or something, because, even the lil 10"'s were trying to hit it. The largest I got to hand was a nice lil 14".
Anyone have any ideas what the fly might be called? I'll post a pic tomorrow if I can remember to. (I'm at the office now)
More serious talk:
How much use is a 'shortened' 6wt Floating linear line? I had a new SA line on that got wrapped under some rocks, and by the time I got to it, the water had pushed it under far enough that I had to cut it off.  I didn't try to cast it after that and don't really know how much is left (maybe 20yds?), as that was to be my last cast anyway, and I had to head back up the mtn to the car. I do most of my casting on a small fast river (N. Fork of the Sky, if you know the water) and it's not a huge issue. I have other lines and reels so I'm not completely lost, but my budget is tight, and I'm cheap, so I'm wondering if I can still use it?
One more, just for fun, although it should be a new thread...What kind of line/flies to bring with me on a 1wk trip to a large lake in N. Cal? I'll look up the lake, but I'm guessing it's mostly lakers and bass.
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All may not be lost. Is/was the line a WF or a DT and how much did you loose?
Cut back heads like this were the original sinking head lines (hand built). If there's enough line/head left you may be able to put a loop on the end and use it with short sinking poly leaders.
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PM's been in private moderation mode for over 6 months which means no one can view their posts until an ADMIN reviews and approves them. Now back to serious fly fishing talk .
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Per his IP address appears to be a College Student with too much time on his hands.
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or professor
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Linear - no taper.
Hey Fred, I'll be driving through your next of the woods next week. We're probably gonna grab a hotel somewhere in S. Or, but haven't finalized plans yet. I'm thinking Grant's Pass or such. We've got relatives in Portland that we need to drop in to see, so that may change the sched a bit....
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Linear - no taper.
Hey Fred, I'll be driving through your next of the woods next week. We're probably gonna grab a hotel somewhere in S. Or, but haven't finalized plans yet. I'm thinking Grant's Pass or such. We've got relatives in Portland that we need to drop in to see, so that may change the sched a bit....
Heading where?? Joan and I are right off of exit 14 (14 miles to the Cal. boarder) in south Ashland. Dinner with Joan and I (think BBQ); stay with us? A spot of fishing if your time permits??
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