Sage 389-4 Light Line questions

Perhaps if you hadn't fished with the Garrisson replica all evening you
might have had some time to try the Moran rod.

Do I detect a note of frustration here? Perhaps I "borrowed" the Garrison
for too long...........:-)

Or was it so that I was
insensitive enough not to offer it?

No, you did offer, I just got distracted by the Garrison copy. Even for a
putz like me that was a lovely rod to cast, at distances further than 30' or
so anyway. And as for replacing the T&T with a Sage? I'm not even going
there. Besides, I will have a new 8'6" 6wt from Cal Anderberg by spring and
this should keep my happy for a while.

Vaughan

"Vaughan Hurry" wrote in message
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Perhaps if you hadn't fished with the Garrisson replica all evening you
might have had some time to try the Moran rod.

Do I detect a note of frustration here? Perhaps I "borrowed" the Garrison
for too long...........:-)

Hah, it was a long test run, wasn't it?

Or was it so that I was
insensitive enough not to offer it?

No, you did offer, I just got distracted by the Garrison copy. Even for a
putz like me that was a lovely rod to cast, at distances further than 30'
or
so anyway.

I'm glad you gave it a chance. It does tend to take a while to get used to,
but once there and one's hooked.

And as for replacing the T&T with a Sage? I'm not even going
there.


Ah, but this is not like the other Sage rods that you build your opinion on.
Not the very stiff, totally insensitive, good for nothing (at least not
fishing) casting machines ;-)

Besides, I will have a new 8'6" 6wt from Cal Anderberg by spring and
this should keep my happy for a while.

There's nothing like a hexagonal piece of bamboo with a reel attached to it
when it comes to keeping a fly fisherman happy for a while. Is this another
of Jennifer Ohlsson's rod series?, or just the individually fitted cane rod
that only an assistant professor; or whatever it was, can afford? ;-)

/Roger

There's nothing like a hexagonal piece of bamboo with a reel attached to
it
when it comes to keeping a fly fisherman happy for a while. Is this
another
of Jennifer Ohlsson's rod series

This will be a personalized one. The Jennifer Olsson series has a lovely 8'
5/6wt rod loosely based on the Ritz/Young type tapers and I very nearly
bought one. But I decided I wanted something with a bit more power to handle
the wind up in the sand ridge country, so Carl offered to build the 8'6" 6wt
for me. It wont actually cost very much more than the insurance from the
broken T&T as he charges quite a bit less than Jennifer's rods cost, even
though he builds her rods as well. Of course, the detailing will not be so
flash on the new rod as on the commercial models but he assures me it will
fish as well. We will see next spring!

Vaughan