The PSA Sno-King Chapter is haveing Dave Vedder as it's guest speaker Feb. 10th. The seminar is free and everyone is welcome attend. Dave's articles are regularly featured in STS, Western Outdoors, & Saltwater Sportsman. Dave has also published some well know books on the art of float fishing. I attended his semiar at Three-Rivers and I am looking forward to listening to him again. Dave is a great speaker !!

We are also having a raffle of a custom made 10' 6" Graphite float rod.

Here is a link for directions and information
PSA Sno-King Web Site

I think the rod will come with a reel and line and a float set up ready to fish and will be worth about $500. Food and beverages available too...

Where? Nothing on the link provided

No offense Skydrifitin but the link takes you right to the front page of the website with a picture of Surecatch AND the location AND the time.....and there is even a map on how to get there......If that is too confusing let us know.

geepa,when I go to the link I get info on msn groups,granted I'm no computer geek. Was thinking about looking into PSA,but if grandpas snide attitude is a representation of their membership. NO THANKS

Skydriftin - Grandpa2:

The link takes you to the PSA home page, and on the lower left is the link for the Dave Vedder seminar...

The fist time I went to the page I got the details...BUT, the next time I clicked the link the only thing on the page aside from the PSA header was:

"Steelhead guru Dave Vedder. "

Rest of the page was blank, just as Skydriftin said. Something isn't working right there.

Mike

Skydrifter:

I found the data...

Click the link Grandpa2 gave to the PSA site, then just scroll down the page for the data.

The link I mentioned (at the lower left of the PSA page) seems to be faulty...BUT all the needed data is on the main page he gave at the link...ya just need to scroll down to find it.

I just joined PSA...good folks, including Grandpa...he was telling you correctly...the data is there....we just didn't see it.

Mike

Not trying to be snide skydrifter....I think the MSN website can be frustrating sometimes. The trouble with them is that you need to get a NetPassport....alot of people don't want to do that. When I click on the link in JR's post it goes right to the front page of the website with the poster giving all the details in plain view....Sorry if I assumed you could see the page....and you can't.

Check the link again and see if it is better.

Thanks Grandpa,

The link to the PSA site always worked, the issue was with the sidebar link..

Which you have fixed..

Not sure if we can make that meeting or not...but would love to hear Vedders talk and get a shot at that combo to boot!



Mike

lookin forward to seeing you again Mike

Man Gandpa we are trying to get them to come to the seminar not be afraid of you. LOL

Ya if you dont have a MSN passport it will somtimes ask you to sign up for one.

E-mail me if you have any problems and i'll e-mail you the flyer and directions.

I am always leery of signing up for anything on the internet. But I do have a MSN passport whatever-you-call-it and have had nothing negative (like spam) result from it and neither has anyone I know.

JRfishing, please explain the details of the $500 float rod. It must be a dandy.

I'm building a 10' 6' Rainshadow 1263F* with a gloss Olive green finish. The blank is 43 million Modulus Graphite "RX7".
It's a 2 piece rod with 8-12 Line Weight, Mod Action with Med/Light Power


It will be built with 12 titanium guides and gold zirconia rings to help keep the wieght down.

For the grip I have combined traditional cork and stained it green to match the blank and added red burl cork accents.

Burgandy Metallic with Gold Metallic inlays wrapps for the guides and butt wrap. Right now i think the butt wrapp will be a Double Diamond pattern with the same Burgandy and gold thread.

I also had our PSA Logo made into a special decal for the rod.

This should be a great one of a kind float rod, not one that you can pick up at the local tackle store.

I hope we can raise some money for PSA in the raffle for this rod.

It looks like PSA might put a Pflueger Trion reel and complete the rod.

If this meeting will be anything like the last one, ya better get there early & grab a good chair! I sure learned alot at the last one, like, I should shadow you, slabquest & grandpa when you make trips to the coast!

I for one will plunk down some $$$ for that rod JR! It was neat to see the downrigger go to a new member!!

See you there.

I hope this helps

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Jeez, JR, I wuz figurin we'd just sand the "Eagle Claw" name off one of them yellow rods and write on "Dave Vedder Special" with a sharpie.

Actually im going to take the word Snoopy off the rod and replace with our logo and pass it off that way. I hope know one notices.

Hey! Don't diss Snoopy, he's caught his fair share. Many of us caught our first fish with him.

There is nothing wrong with Snoopy, I thought it would make a fine float rod and all i'd have to do is take off the Snoopy and put on a PSA logo and maybe a couple flakes of glitter to make it attractive to those bass fisherman als
o, You know to raise more money.

We need to hear from Surecatch on this issue.

By the way the Shimano regional sales rep has never heard of Dave Vedder. He knows who grandpa is though.

Grandpa:

Of course he knows you. You are a legend!

As for my opinion on the reels, I use a Shimano Curado and a Citica. I also use a Pflueger Trion. They are all fine and I think are all comparable. Tell your Shimano rep. that I will be using a lot more Pfluegers in the future as they give them to me free.

The absolute best reel for a float rod is a centre pin, but . . .

As for the Dave Vedder signature rod, the originals had a facsimile of my signature on them. Now days both Bill’s rods and mine have some computer generate "signature". I like the old one better. You can't read my handwriting but at least it was my writing.

Welcome back Dave....Pflueger sounds like a good deal...The center pin is in the advance class. Lot of enthusiasts are looking forward to your seminar on Feb 10th.

What is the center pin of choice.

I like the Islander IS



Spendy, but it is the definision of Smooth!!

Never know, I can ask and see if they are in a giving mood.

The Dave Vedder Lamiglas X106 MLC-T 10'6" float rod just came in from Lamiglas today. All I need to do is get the reel of choice recommended by Dave and fill it with line and we are set for another HOT raffle item for the seminar Feb 10th. I see the signature on the rod and the one I have in Dave's book that he signed for me and I think I like the computer one...Atleast I can tell what it says....

The meeting on the 10th is going to be exciting to say the least. I am going to the Herzog meeting tomorrow night at 3Rivers to see if Bill can hold a candle to Dave when it comes to giving a talk about fishing.

AuntyM... I think Dave still believes that we are politically incorrect....but he is a nice man and I forgive him for being wrong. Notice how we talk about fishing for the most part?

Aunty, Our you going to make the drive up for our meeting on the 10th. I'll buy you and Caveman dinner and a pop. You can sit in the back and heckle Grandpa and Surecatch from the back. Looks like we are going to have (2) rods for the raffle and shuold be worht the drive.

I attended Dave Vedder's seminar at Three Rivers Marine. What a presentation! He really simplified a few things that I thought were complicated. He also added some humor to it. Thanks to JR I have started fishing local rivers again. I used to about 8 years ago when my oldest boy was 13. I took him to Reiter on a bitter cold morning. We were standing in the river in the last hole before the whitewater. I was getting bumps. My son, Nate, got his gear tangled up. Of course it was combat fishing. The guy above me-15 feet away, listened to me tell Nate where there was a fish sitting. I was helping Nate retie his gear. This guy cast his gear into that hole and pulled out the fish I had found for my son. I glared him down wondering if I should deck him or leave. What a jerk. We left. I hadn't really river fished much again and went to strictly saltwater, other than guide fishing on the Peninsula. I am back at it and having fun and my younger son is doing it too at 14. Haven't been back to Reiter. JR and Dave's seminar got my blood going again. There are a lot of things that Dave made simple. He is also a great guy. Looking forward to seeing you on Feb 10th. By the way if you don't have time to go home and have dinner, spaghetti and garlic bread will be available for $3.00 a plate.

I just spoke with Berry from Islander reels. They are going to DONATE an Islander Steelheader Center Pin reel to have in our raffle..








The rod is not finished yet but here the start of it.

ATTENTION STEELHEADERS:

Do not miss the Dave Vedder seminar on February 10th at 7PM at the Edmonds yacht Club. Puget Sound Anglers SnoKing Chapter not only is blessed to have Dave Vedder speaking on float fishing but we also are going to raffle off a couple of exceptional outfits:

First the LamiGlas Dave Vedder model 10'6" float rod with a Pflueger Trion reel ...

And on top of that great combo we will offer the custom made float rod JR is making for us and attached to that rod will be the Islander Steelheader center pin reel. WOW!!! That is approaching $1000 in value.

We will have a capacity crowd I'm sure so come early for a good seat.

Remember members of our chapter each receive a free raffle ticket and that includes anyone who joins the night of the meeting. The membership cost is $25 and includes a subscription to the Reel News and also a one year membership in the RFA. The paper alone is worth the cost of the membership. And past experience shows that new members win raffle prizes with their free ticket. Last month a new member who signed up at the January meeting got his free ticket and won the Scotty electric downrigger. So I know there will be lots of interest in these 2 fabulous rod/reel combos and the great talk we can expect from Dave...

What pound line should we load onto the reels ??

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We have a Fleuger Trion and a Islander Steelheader

power pro for a float rod.

JR,

I noticed one minor issue. The rod your building looks to be designed for a baitcaster reel with the short upper cork and the trigger reel seat.

Centerpin rods are usually 10.5' or more in length with a longer upper cork, similar to a spey rod. Like this:



The action of the rod needs to be slow as well (like a flyrod) to better facilitate casting with the Centerpin reel.

The rod you're building definitely looks very nice, I'm just not sure that it will match up well with the Islander reel.

I agree with you and thank you 4Salt for pointing this out.

We have made changes to the raffle prizes

When we started the project, we where going to raffle a custom made float rod and put a curado reel on it. So I built the rod with a trigger style grip with cork & guides for a baitcasting reel, it is not perfect for the steelheader reel. We thought that raffling the custom built rod and the steelheader reel together would be a great attraction for the raffle.

We are now going to raffle them separately.

By splitting the Islander from the custom made rod, we would then have THREE outstanding raffle prizes

1.) Dave Vedder Lamigals Rod with a Pflueger Trion reel.

2.) Custom made 10'6 Float Rod

3.) Islander Steelheader Reel
I will even offer to build the same Float rod set-up for the Steelheader reel for the price of the components to whoever wins it.

We hope you like the changes

Thanks 4Salt for pointing out the compatibility issue. Now we have sweetened the pot considerably. Whomever wins the custom float rod will have to use the reel of their choice but the winner of the Islander can opt to have a custom float rod to match the reel made at the cost of the components...Now that is a DEAL

I would gladly take the custom rod and split the two. I cannot find a good deal on the islander reel. These are going from $350. for the reel alone.

Just put the final coat of clear epoxy on the rod. I looks sweet, kind of hard to give up. I’ll change the pictures I posted of it tomorrow.

Hope to see you there on Tuesday.

Here are some pictures of the finished Float rod for the raffle at Dave's Seminar







Hope to see you there, Tues Feb 10th.

Really looking forward to the Dave Vedder seminar on fishing with floats next Tuesday at 7pm at the Edmonds Yacht Club.

Really looking forward to the Dave Vedder seminar on fishing with floats next Tuesday at 7pm at the Edmonds Yacht Club.

I received the Islander Steelheader reel today for the raffle. One word, SMOOTH, you turn the clicker off and spin the handle it goes and goes and goes. You stop it from spinning before it stops on its own, just out of boredom.

With Steelhead fishing for those large natives, C/R PLEASE, in full swing. Dave’s seminar and the raffle prizes will be an awesome addition to anyone.

Tonight is the night....I'm loading the Dave Vedder rod and the Pflueger Trion reel in the car in a few minutes...We may have to call in the Edmonds police for crowd control.

Just a quick "thank you" to Dave for the excellent presentation last night.

The combination of the talk and the slide show really kept things fast-paced and interesting.

I am now convinced that when bank fishing, float fishing is the way to go 90% of the time -- especially for people like me with limited steelheading skills.

It was a pleasure to meet Surecatch and I'm looking forward to reading his book.

I'd like to extend a huge Thank You to surecatch for coming last night. You had a great presentation and exhibited tremendous patience with the tons of questions, even when you got cornered by those guys in the entryway.

Oh, and thanks for signing the book, too!

Also, thanks to grandpa and the rest of the PSA SnoKing crew for setting everything up and putting together such a good variety of raffle items. I wish I could have entered, but I've won more than my share this year.

Congratulations to those who won as well!

What a great presentation last night by Dave. I have to go pickup some float gear today!

Also to PSA members, I joined last night and look forward to meeting a few more of you.

What a fun speaker Dave is. He has a great way of presenting his ideas and humor .

We had over 125 persons in the crowd and it was great to meet a lot of PP members. Thanks for taking time out of your schedule and attending.

A few months ago I may have had misconceptions about Surecatch and 4salt...Now that I have met both of you and see that you are not boogey men but real genuinely good guys I might listen to both of you more often.

Dave stepped up to the plate for PSA SnoKing in more ways than one and for that I am truly and sincerely greatful. I'm not kidding on this. I work pretty hard trying to make a difference and it kind of chokes me up to see someone making our lives more enjoyable like Dave does. I know how much effort Dave put into the event last night and I now he had a bad day yesterday. I am a better person for knowing Dave Vedder and can't thank him enough for his great contributions to me, PSA and sports fishing in general.

Now on to 4Salt... I appreciate you coming last night and the fact that you introduced yourself. I always pictured you as an old fart with crazy opinions...now I know you are a young congenial person with crazy ideas. I am looking forward to wetting a line with you and Dave this year some time. I'm sure I can learn alot from both of you.

Thanks , too, to JR for building that spectacular custom rod for our raffle. Thanks for your tireless service to PSA. Thanks to all the others who joined us and especially to all the new members who joined our organization last night. Especially one special new member....you know who you are. I was pleasantly surprised to hear about your decision to join.

Thanks Grandpa! I enjoyed meeting you too! That's quite a club you're runnin' there!

I kinda had a feelin' you weren't as evil as some folks think! Ha Ha!

I definitely look forward to fishing with you sometime!

I think I might be bipolar....not sure. I used to drink a fair bit and I thought I was more fun then..

I just wanted to say thank you for all who put the seminar on. I have yet to catch a steelhead and I hope to put the information to use that I learned last night to be able to catch my first one. Dave sure is a great speaker and I hope that everyone else enjoyed it as much as I did.

David