Andre
The Bamboo Guy!
Dennis, that works for me and I will be there that early also. Let me know where you'll be. andre517@comcast.net
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Bamboo Rod
- Thread starter dcabarle
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HydeLowRider
Member
"The right time to get on the beaverkill is between 7:30 - 8:00 am and fish until 11:30 am. Then when things turn off as they traditionally do at 11:00 - 11:30am, we go eat."
DC -- Right on target.
Let's meet at Roscoe Diner at say 12:00 p.m.
I will be fishing at Cairns Pool area around 7:00 a.m. -- I will be wearing a black baseball cap and not catching any fish.
My car is a Black Jetta VR6 with Maryland license plates.
Check out Catskillflies.com for flies to tie up - I intend on looking for Caddis, Isonychias, BWO's, Tricos (maybe) and Terrestrials -- just tied up a bunch of Red Foam Ants size 20 for kicks. You may want to also consider fishing a cricket pattern if you get there in the early morning.
HLR
DC -- Right on target.
Let's meet at Roscoe Diner at say 12:00 p.m.
I will be fishing at Cairns Pool area around 7:00 a.m. -- I will be wearing a black baseball cap and not catching any fish.
My car is a Black Jetta VR6 with Maryland license plates.
Check out Catskillflies.com for flies to tie up - I intend on looking for Caddis, Isonychias, BWO's, Tricos (maybe) and Terrestrials -- just tied up a bunch of Red Foam Ants size 20 for kicks. You may want to also consider fishing a cricket pattern if you get there in the early morning.
HLR
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HydeLowRider
Member
Still on -- Beaverkill at Cairns around 7ish a.m. and Roscoe Diner at 12:00 p.m.
HLR
HLR
willowhead
~Jedi Dryfly~
Dang, i wish i had known........love to fish with a bunch of Boo nuts. My main Boo rod is an Uslan, (five sided) 5 wt. 7 and a half footer. Love the thing, very accurate. I've had 50 fish days with it on the Connetquot.....BIG FUN! We have a couple Japanese Boo rods, for a 4 wt. and a 5 wt. They are very nice also. And then i have a couple others that i haven't fished with yet. Sure hope you all had a great time with your Boo rods. Right now Pete Laurance (BlackLabFlies) is making me one of his Banties, (5 ft. 3 wt.) for the Brookies on the tribs up here. I'm still in possession of his, and it cast very sweet. Perfect rod for the little brooks in the Catskills. mark........
CaneflyfishnGSPs
I'LL use 'Cane until I need a cane!
Re: Bamboo Rods
I've used cane exclusively for the past 14 yrs. now, selling off all my graphite rods after I bought my 1st Leonard- a 7' 6" 3/2 for a 4 wt. I was hooked for life because I could actually "feel" the rod load and more importantly, feel the fish pick up my nymph off the stream bottom, without me even having to see the take!! I have 3 sons who also fish nothing but cane and are 24, 21 and 13 yrs. old now. They all started out on the mass-produced rods at 9 yrs. old, but have worked their way up the cane-quality ladder as they've grown better at handling them and being more responsible for proper care of them, on and offstream.
My advice to 1st time cane users: Stick with it until you get used to it- DON'T switch back and forth to graphite as the casting strokes are different from one another and you don't want to exert excessive force to a cane rod, to repeat what the others on this thread have stated before. In time, you'll have memorized the difference in handling both.....
I'd say the 4 of us own 22 cane rods collectively at this time, from Leonards and F.E.Thomas' to Grangers, S. Bends and Cross rods. I've even given some away to teenagers after restoring them to help influence them away from the bad companions they hang around with at times. I've fixed and sold countless others to put them back onstream for others to enjoy also.
I restored a kid's grandpa's rod in exchange for 1 dozen flies he tied, as I knew he didn't have any money, but he took a flytying class at his high school and was proud of what he learned so far. He was so happy to fish with the rod he got from "Grandpa" after it was done and asked me if 1 dozen was enough for the work, even though I told him to tie 6 flies for me as payment when we made the deal!!
With me, it's a passion/obsession to restore and fish with cane rods and share that joy with others. They are my onstream "Stradivarius" instruments.........
Sincerely,
Canefly
dcabarle said:
I've used cane exclusively for the past 14 yrs. now, selling off all my graphite rods after I bought my 1st Leonard- a 7' 6" 3/2 for a 4 wt. I was hooked for life because I could actually "feel" the rod load and more importantly, feel the fish pick up my nymph off the stream bottom, without me even having to see the take!! I have 3 sons who also fish nothing but cane and are 24, 21 and 13 yrs. old now. They all started out on the mass-produced rods at 9 yrs. old, but have worked their way up the cane-quality ladder as they've grown better at handling them and being more responsible for proper care of them, on and offstream.
My advice to 1st time cane users: Stick with it until you get used to it- DON'T switch back and forth to graphite as the casting strokes are different from one another and you don't want to exert excessive force to a cane rod, to repeat what the others on this thread have stated before. In time, you'll have memorized the difference in handling both.....
I'd say the 4 of us own 22 cane rods collectively at this time, from Leonards and F.E.Thomas' to Grangers, S. Bends and Cross rods. I've even given some away to teenagers after restoring them to help influence them away from the bad companions they hang around with at times. I've fixed and sold countless others to put them back onstream for others to enjoy also.
I restored a kid's grandpa's rod in exchange for 1 dozen flies he tied, as I knew he didn't have any money, but he took a flytying class at his high school and was proud of what he learned so far. He was so happy to fish with the rod he got from "Grandpa" after it was done and asked me if 1 dozen was enough for the work, even though I told him to tie 6 flies for me as payment when we made the deal!!
With me, it's a passion/obsession to restore and fish with cane rods and share that joy with others. They are my onstream "Stradivarius" instruments.........
Sincerely,
Canefly
