About a month ago I was presented with the opprotunity to create my own rod. I have tied my own flies, made my own leaders and such, so im pretty much self sufficient in that area, but I have never built a rod. My good friend Woody Banks from Indiana Angler had asked me if I wanted to try my hand at building a rod. Well needless to say I was hooked. Being a huge fan of John Nagy and reading the Steelhead Guide cover to cover numerous times, I decided I wanted to try a rod with a little more cushion. The rod that I currently have (pictured on my blogs headline) is the Cabelas 9'6" LST 7 WT. I have no complaints with it, it fishes tons of shot well, looks nice, casts great and has stood up to some abuse. But, I have one gripe about it, break offs with light tippets. I did get used to this, and a fast action has its advantage, but I decided to purchase the Wild River Noodle Blank in a 10'6" slow action and convert it into a fly rod. I used Pac-Bay components, a carbon fiber reel seat, full wells grip, and a medium sized fighting butt. I had the option to include a removeable 5 inch butt, but once I got to thinking most of the streams in Erie County take about 10 steps to walk across I decided to scrap that idea. I selected silver thread to wrap the guides with, a feature I think will look pretty sharp when im done, and it will be easily I.D.'d as my rod. I will be posting my progress further along as this goes, but heres some pictures so far of the rod.
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