Wayne Harrison wrote:
"rw" wrote

. When I unpacked my rod I saw it was broken at

the butt right above the grip. It was one of those "I can't understand
what it is that I'm seeing" moments, like when you walk into your
apartment and your stereo system is gone.


hey, i know exactly what you mean. it happened to me only once, when my
wife (#2) and i returned from a late movie only a few days after we had
remodeled our downstairs, to find everything that wasn't bolted down, gone.

it was like seeing yourself on tv when you didn't know you were being
filmed; a combination of mystery and fear.

It's a very, very weird feeling -- like time is suspended and you're
separated from reality. Those MFers not only took my stereo, but also
the 45 auto in my dresser and all my change. The police were very
understanding about the handgun -- it was a notorious neighborhood. I
was a grad student at the time, so I didn't have anything else of value.
Monetary value, that is.

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Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 04:16:25 GMT, wrote:

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:06:14 -0700, "Tom Nakashima"
wrote:

I just purchased a 5 wt. 4pc 9' fly-rod. I was looking for a cheap hard
case for backpacking. I would like to keep it light, but the rod well
protected. Suggestions? Home made cases?
-tom


If your rod will fit inside, you might consider a couple of golf bag
tubes/sleeves...

Here's a link to what I was referring in general:

http://wwww.basspro.com/product-1/60830.htm


R

wrote in message
...
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 04:16:25 GMT, wrote:

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:06:14 -0700, "Tom Nakashima"

wrote:

I just purchased a 5 wt. 4pc 9' fly-rod. I was looking for a cheap hard
case for backpacking. I would like to keep it light, but the rod well
protected. Suggestions? Home made cases?
-tom


If your rod will fit inside, you might consider a couple of golf bag
tubes/sleeves...

Here's a link to what I was referring in general:

http://wwww.basspro.com/product-1/60830.htm


R

I like it!
The price is right .99, the length is fine at 34", if only it were 1/2" in
dia. larger.
I need a dia of 2" to fit all four pieces.
Thanks for the link,
-tom

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:57:06 -0700, "Tom Nakashima"
wrote:


wrote in message
.. .
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 04:16:25 GMT, wrote:

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:06:14 -0700, "Tom Nakashima"

wrote:

I just purchased a 5 wt. 4pc 9' fly-rod. I was looking for a cheap hard
case for backpacking. I would like to keep it light, but the rod well
protected. Suggestions? Home made cases?
-tom


If your rod will fit inside, you might consider a couple of golf bag
tubes/sleeves...

Here's a link to what I was referring in general:

http://wwww.basspro.com/product-1/60830.htm


R

I like it!
The price is right .99, the length is fine at 34", if only it were 1/2" in
dia. larger.
I need a dia of 2" to fit all four pieces.
Thanks for the link,
-tom

The link was just as an example of what's out there - there are several
diameters of these available, along with related accessories (like link-locks),
all _very_ inexpensive. Keep in mind that this solution is not as rugged as
thick-wall PVC or similar - it won't stand up to a mule's ass or undertipped
porters using Bwana Hemingwannabe's tube to play stickball with boulders, for
example - but in certain circumstances, it'll do.

TC,
R

"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
...
I just purchased a 5 wt. 4pc 9' fly-rod. I was looking for a cheap hard
case for backpacking. I would like to keep it light, but the rod well
protected. Suggestions? Home made cases?

Get John Hightower to craft one for you.

Tom Nakashima wrote:
I just purchased a 5 wt. 4pc 9' fly-rod. I was looking for a cheap hard
case for backpacking. I would like to keep it light, but the rod well
protected. Suggestions? Home made cases?
-tom

Call Temple Fork Flyrods and www.templeforkflyrods.com and order one of
their fine tubes. Have four and packin to the Rockies in Colorado every
week!
Buzz

To go with the ethos of horsepacking, you ought to have had the rod in a
cast iron sewer pipe. As it was he was getting back at you for the cast
iron skillet and dutch oven that you were making him carry.
Brings back bad memories of backpacking a cast iron skillet into the mountains
because "there is nothing like a breakfast of Smithfield ham and eggs fried on
a cast iron skillet".
Nearly was my last.
Fog.
Rain.
Hypothermia.
Almost didn't make it out.
It's bad when your 10 year old son concludes you're dumber than a mule.
It's worse when you conclude the same.

Kiyu

Kiyu wrote:
Brings back bad memories of backpacking a cast iron skillet into the mountains
because "there is nothing like a breakfast of Smithfield ham and eggs fried on
a cast iron skillet".
Nearly was my last.
Fog.
Rain.
Hypothermia.
Almost didn't make it out.
It's bad when your 10 year old son concludes you're dumber than a mule.
It's worse when you conclude the same.

That's funny. You actually backpacked a cast iron skillet into the
mountains? Did you pack it out?

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That's funny. You actually backpacked a cast iron skillet into the
mountains? Did you pack it out?

That's the really bad part.
I still have the damned thing.G