Getting Together

 As I have written before, I have a couple of buddies who are as nutty about fiberglass rods as I am, and we sometimes get together, with our glass rods, and do a little bit of casting out in the yard outside my office building. I will call these two buddies Peter and Greg, because those are their names. If they wanted to remain anonymous they shouldn't have become buddies with me...

Just a few of the rods we were trying out...

With all the Covid stuff happening this year, we hadn't gotten together to do any casting all summer. We finally were able to get a day that worked for all of us, so these two nutty dudes came over last Thursday at high noon. Somehow we lucked out with the Minnesota weather, as we had a beautifully warm and cloudless day. We all brought all the rods we had acquired since the last time we got together, plus a few others, and we had a fun hour or five of casting. 

Greg (foreground) & Peter (background), trying out rods.

Greg has fallen deep into the world of rod building, and he has started to pump out some beautiful, high quality builds using Lamiglas blanks. I believe he now has every rod in the Lamiglas Honey Blank lineup, and he brought them all. My favorite of those was his 6'6" 3wt, not necessarily because it seemed like a good fishing tool, but more so because I had never felt a rod that flexed so far into the handle. It seemed as though the reelseat itself was flexing along with the rod, which I think is impossible, but that's what it felt like. If I was actually fishing, I would have chosen one of his other rods, but for casting in the yard, that little 3wt sure was something...

Four of Greg's Lamiglas rods. The 6'6" 3wt is 2nd from the bottom. That is one noodly rod!

Peter brought his two Fred Paddock rods, which are both super sweet, along with his Orvis Superfine Glass and Orvis Fullflex "A" 6wt. I brought my two Vince Cummings rods, my Larry Kenney 5wt, and a few others. All of the rods were sweet. As you may have heard me say a billion times before, I believe that the fly rod is the coolest tool that man has ever invented. Can't wait for the next casting get-together!

Winston glass.

St. Croix glass

Because of the Corona and susceptible family members, we wore gloves and masks for the first time at one of our get-togethers. Afterwards we all went out and robbed a bank. Don't tell anyone...