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Thankx dd..... Vicki, your a poet don't you know it. Wayne.....i love the way you've really thought it out.....reasonable, logical, practicle, spiritual even........exit, stage left.

Try before you buy Wayne. I really like longer rods but we had a nine foot here and it wasn't enjoyable enough to find it if it was going to be fatiguing. Seriously it was the least enjoyable rod I have ever known in my whole life. It became either a 6 or 6 1/2 foot 4wt that my husband uses. It's OK for him, he likes it, but I still wouldn't say it's enjoyable. 8' for 5 wt is my favourite in the larger rods. My 3wt is about 7'3" which seems perfect. I want to build a 7' 2 wt.

Oh and thanks Mark. I have a poet's heart in a sailor's brain!!



Vicki

That's a match made in heaven Vicki.........you can recit to the moon, on the rolling waves of sea...........

Mark: I guess 23yrs as a troubleshooter in a technical field has marked me LOL!

Vicki: I'm going to make the blank myself, already have the bamboo culms in my garage waiting to be split.

I'm leaning heavy towards a Leonard 8 1/2ft, 3pc, 5wt taper. If it's too heavy, I'll build a second that's hollow built.

I'm also going to build a Payne Canadian Canoe taper, 8 1/2ft, 3pc, 7wt as a bass rod. I cast one and really liekd it!

Wayneb

i hear ya Wayne........i got that many years on the road with Jazz cats.......road manager/sound-man/psychaitrist/driver/tech./trouble-shooter/advance-man/payroll clerk/money collector/glorified baby-sitter/body-gaurd/etc./etc./etc./etc./etc.........first one up, last one to bed, on call 24/7.........i did it in the 70's/80's/90's/& up until 2002........then i figured i could sleep in my own bed some....... .....wrong.....fly fishing/tying shows took over and i was right back on the road for the last 10 yrs. with that. But startin' next year i am really cutting back.........i think i'm only gonna do bout a half dozen events.....or so. ........... Sure hope you can make the Flymph Forum Rendezvous in Roscoe.........i'm gonna try and get Bob Taylor to come and hang out.....bring some Boo rods.....whatever he wants to do, if i can. That's the CAT! He's a very nice easy goin' guy.....i been knowin' him for a decade at least..........wait'll you get to cast somma those rods.....

willowhead wrote:That's a match made in heaven Vicki.........you can recit to the moon, on the rolling waves of sea...........

I was kinda thinking poet's heart, sailor's brain and no one knows which might come out of my mouth next...not even me sometimes!!



Wayne ENJOY!!!



Vicki

Hi Wayne,

Does the taper have a name? All the Leonard tapers in the book of Ray Gould have a name and I don't see a tapering 8 1/2 foot 5 wt.

Do you know if your rod is fast or slow. I think the feeling of heavinis is not because of the too much bamboo in the rod but more by the leverage of the rod and a few gram more or less does not matter.


Succes with the planing

Greeting

Hi Ruard;

It's a Leonard Model 50 1/2 Tournament 8.5 Ft 5 Wt.

I'm assuming it's very similar to the Leonard 50DH, 8ft. 5wt. The taper is listed at David Ray's Taper library:
http://www.hexrod.net/Tapers/drtapers/L ... 102_5.html

Here's the link to Hexrod listing: http://www.hexrod.net/Hexrod/hexrod-c.pl

The stress curve is very similar to Leonard's 50DH which I've already cast and love, just want something a little longer.


Wayneb

I have a feeling you might like the hollow built. Call it woman's intuition. I could be wrong though.

Enjoy every moment! Even the tough ones, it'll make it oh so much sweeter later.



Vicki

wayneb wrote:Hi Ruard;

It's a Leonard Model 50 1/2 Tournament 8.5 Ft 5 Wt.

I'm assuming it's very similar to the Leonard 50DH, 8ft. 5wt. The taper is listed at David Ray's Taper library:
http://www.hexrod.net/Tapers/drtapers/L ... 102_5.html

Here's the link to Hexrod listing: http://www.hexrod.net/Hexrod/hexrod-c.pl

The stress curve is very similar to Leonard's 50DH which I've already cast and love, just want something a little longer.


Wayneb

Thank you Wayneb, hope you will make some pictures when you are bussy with this rod.


greeting