Off to a good start

Re: Off to a good start

feeds@kickapps.com (JeffSod) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:22:41 PST

Thanks for the heads up on the brook. I kind of liked fishing the areas below those flumes. It will be interesting to see how they fish after.

Re: Off to a good start

feeds@kickapps.com (Letort) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:56:43 PST

Robert,
Beautiful rod and a great looking bass! It is always nice for to catch a good fish on a new rod. Thanks for posting the photo.

Michael

P.S. the last two flumes are being taken out this week on Red Brook.

Re: Off to a good start

feeds@kickapps.com (gillbuster) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:19:24 PST

1956 Bamboo and Bass... they were made for one another... that rod is 53 years young and did a nice job on that healthy fish, thanks for sharing a nice piece of history also ...one of these days I am going to get a good bamboo rod and give it try... I am afraid I will get the addiction bug, like I did with Glass rods

Off to a good start

feeds@kickapps.com (quashnet) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:54:39 PST

A bass doesn't care what the rod he's caught on is made of. But I enjoy fishing bamboo, and was fortunate recently to acquire a Paul H. Young Co. Parabolic 17. The serial #2226 dates the rod to about 1956, 8'6", two-piece, two tips (one "wet" or parabolic tip rated for G.B.F. line and one dry fly tip for H.C.H. line), fixed two-inch extension butt. Originally built by Paul H. Young for Lloyd Lawson of Dearborn, MI, automotive engineer who during World War II designed a custom dual-engine Ford truck to haul military bomber aircraft parts to factories for final assembly. This largemouth bass was my first fish on the rod, taken while wading a shoreline. Fly was a Dark Edson Tiger. Lots of little yellow perch, about the same size as the fly, were in the area.