Let's hear what ROD's you guys are using

While I spent the last week with Bob Meiser Rod, called Fred Evans Special!
Yea that Fred Evans, It was a pleasure to cast it 530 – 580 grains.
It handled the wind just right, I ended up just casting it not really fishing, and I started casting for distance bad sign to much fun casting it.

St. Croix Pro Graphite 9' 6wt and 9'6" 8wt. Then I also have an old fiberglass rod about the equivilent to a slow action 5wt.

9' 5wt Sage DS and 9'6" 8wt Sage DS. I like them both but the 8wt is a struggle with a type 6.

Winston BoronII ex
Best rod I've ever owned

Wright & McGill 8 1/2' 7 wt
Fenwick FF85-6
Winston 9 1/2' 9 wt
Fenwick FF75-6-4pc
AW 9 1/2' 8 wt
AW 9' 7 wt
Sage 9' 5 wt
Orvis 8 3/4' 7 wt
Hardy 10 1/2' 8 wt
AW 8' 5 wt 4 pc
Yellowstone 9' 6 wt 4pc
Sage 9140-4
AW 12' 7/8wt
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McVey 8' 5/6 wt
E.C. Powell 9 1/2' 9 wt
South Bend 9' 9wt 3pc
South Bend 8' 7wt
Granger 9' 7wt
Holbrook 9' 9wt
Holbrook 7 1/2' 5 wt
Unk. 7 3/4' 5wt

. . . and others I can't remember at the moment.

Just an old GL3 9'5wt for the summer and a 9'6" 8wt St Croix for the winter. And maybe a GL2 7'6" 4wt and a Sage 9' 6wt throw in for other things. You never know what you are going to fish for until you get to where it is you are going. And these four rods cover all that I need along with several different lines.

Jim... I try to keep it simple.

Jim Jim Jim

just been using a winston ltx 9' 5 weight. i also have a fenwick fenglass ff80, 8' 8 weight that hasnt seen use yet. need a reel, and i haven't got the stones up yet to try steelhead on the fly. still trying to get the trout thing down. soon i will have an old montague highlander bamboo, just need to finish rewrapping the eyes back on. steve

By size,

CND Salar 15'6" 9-10--11
Sage 10150-4
Loop Yellow Line 9140
CND Skagit 13'8" #9
Talon Midgar 13' #9
Loop Yellow Line 9130
Fly Logic FLO+1307
Loop Green Line 8124
Sage 5120

Hey Brian,

Sent you a email.

Matt Burke

H2H, :p :p :p :p :p :p :

Jim

583-2 Burkheimer
279-2 Burkheimer
6100-3 Burkheimer
7125-3 Burkheimer
9139-3 Burkheimer
9143-3 Burkheimer

St. Croix Imperial IF14010
Sage 91404
Sage 10153
St. Croix Imperial IF1308
Severial 2 handed rods, which I seem to use less and less

Steelhead:
Sage RPL 8wt. 9 1/2'
Sage SP 8wt. 10'
GLoomis GL4 7wt. 9'
Sage RPL 6wt 9 1/2'

Trout:
Sage DS 5wt 9'
Orvis Trident 5wt 9 1/2'
St Croix Imperial 3 wt 9'

Ocean Coho:
St Croix Imperial 8/9wt 9'

DH
I’m amazed, still no two-handers!
I almost sick thinking about it!

Well big mouth everybody listed theirs so where are your rods.

Jim

Also where are your eyes. Mattzoid listed all his two handers and Salmo G listed one. Do I have to slap you again

Ok young Man here it is, this will do for starters

Single handed rods (collecting dust)
5

Bamboo (collecting dust)

4

Two-handed Rods
13

Yea I'm a rod whore!

Hey....thats my rod! And I totally forgot about that rod until now.

What Rod?

I should have never posted my rod count!

How 'bout this Homey, I will trade you one Powell 11' #7 Proto for a Skagit Specialist!

See you tomorow!

Sigh ... have 13 or 14 two handers, and several single handers.

End game is for short work I'll use a single hander (usually a Sage 7100 xp with a sink tip) or a couple of spey's with dry lines appropiate for the water I'm expecting.

A good thing about the Rogue is you can get very good water flows off the 'web' so you're pretty well matched before the car leaves the garage.

Love It!!
fae

Pooie! Should have added: Interesting to see the water gages 'on line.' You know the flow out of Warm Springs dam , Dodge Bridge, Gold Ray, Grants Pass, etc. Flow from the top is (now) 1720 cfs, and at Gold Ray it's dropped 200 cfs. Evaporation/irrigation?

Who knows, but 200 cfs is a lot of water in 30 miles of river.

Fred

Had a long talk with Bob M. today, HHMMM more rods on the way!

Out of my current rod collection, here is what gets used!

Winston LT 1207- Trout fishing on med to large rivers, mainly swinging soft hackles. Casting distances of 20' to 70'. Favorite lines are a DT5 or WF5.

Meizer Switch 7/8- Summer SH on med. to small streams. Using a standard WF single hand #7 on it.

T&T 1307- Summer SH on medium to large rivers where fish are going to average around 7#'s and casting 50' to 90'. Favorite line is a Wulff TT#7.

Sage 7141- Summer SH when casting 70' to 100'. Favorite line is Wulff TT#7.

CND Salar- Both Summer and Winter SH in large rivers. Expected average weight of fish to be in double figures. Casting 70' to maximum distance. XLT 7/8 for summer fishing and XLT 8/9 for winter fishing.

Bob Clay 1308- Hollow Fluted Cane two hander. For when the 'mood' is right, used only with greased Silk DT#8 or DT#9. (Depends on average casting distances.) I fish this rod from 50' to 80'.

William

Since I joined the CND team I have sold off every other steely rod I own to buy more lines and reels to fit the 13 two-handed models currently in production - with several more models coming out in August for the fall greased line season.

I have my hands full (both of them) just trying to give them equal time on the river!