Fly Casting Blog: Chopping off a Fly Rods Tip...First Impressions with a New/Old Streamer Stick
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- Опубліковано 27 жов 2022
- Picked up a St. Croix Rods SOLE Fly Rod 9' 11wt (2015 - currently discontinued rod model) at a local retailer who had it in the corner collecting dust. Gave it a new home, chopped up one of the spare tips, and gave it a purpose in life....MUSKY ;)
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I appreciate all of the videos you have posted over the years. I got into fly fishing a few years back after being wounded in combat. I started with trout, moved on to bass, went back after BIG trout, and now I’m hunting for musky and pike. I don’t live far from the driftless, so we are Fishing similar water, so learning from you has made it that much easier for me, and I need it to be as easy as I can get it at this point. Anyway, just wanted to say thanks man, tell ya it is appreciated, and I’m still watching and still learning from you. For a guy that finds peace when he is in the water, you’ve given me another tool and a bit more of an edge with each video you do. Keep doing what you do brother and thanks for the time, energy, knowledge you inject, and money you’ve invested into our industry, to some, it means a lot!
Hi Gunnar, I've been cutting down tips for decades. At the beginning I just broke tips casting, put a tip top on what was left and got lucky. Afterwards if I thought a rod would cast better by being a little shorter I'd get a saw. One time I broke a little bit off the tip during a casting demo in Chicago. Got some glue and glued the same tip top on the shortened tip and the rod casted way better than the original. Then I did the same thing again to that same altered rod, and the resulting rod casted unbelievably! One of my best demonstration rods I ever had! Playing around with tackle and flies, experimenting and trying new stuff, playing hunches and relying on intuition really pays off. Yeah, I like a little stiffer tip for casting, let alone casting big flies. But not too stiff. It has to be just right. You're good!
That's not Jim Levison's comment, it's Mark Sedotti's. Think you could tell! Hope you're well!
Thanks for sharing 👍! Always enjoy your work!
What a sweet find 😌
Just can't leave well enough alone can ya? That's a good thing. Experimenting is how we learn things and in this case it looks like it was a success. I have a Fenwick spinning rod that does the same thing but with the same length but different blanks from the factory. Keep the good stuff coming.
Who needs to chop a tip off when most of the time it breaks on yah, you just put on a new tip top; and well heck, it casts and maybe little better!
Out here in So Cal salt water we have a technique called "surface iron fishing". It involves an 8-10 rod to cast a large size but light (3oz) aluminum jig. Cutting blanks has been a practice for a long time.
Take 6-12 inches off the butt of a 10' 30-50 lb rated blank to get a softer or slower action 9' 25-40 lb rod.
Take the length off the tip.and you get a stiffer n faster 9' 40-60 lb rod.
Some guys get way too in to it n take some off both ends.
These are 1 piece rods so you get what you get.
Easy to see a fly rod with multiple top sections making 1 rod much more versatile.
Awesome video, great info! Ive fallen in love with my shorter Sage payload and 8’ 9wt hardy zane. I have a fast action 9’ 7wt with two tips, do you think if I trimmed 4 or 5 inches off one of the tip sections it would work well for a standard or slightly heavy 8wt line? Would be awesome to have a short rod a little lighter than the 8+ payload and 9wt hardy.
Heck yeah man!
Pretty cool I broke a tip I may shorten it up see what it does can’t hurt nothing
Off the subject, I noticed in your “Spring pike fishing with Hez” you have a Hummingbird Helix 7. I recently bought one and was wondering which view you find most beneficial.
So you turned a tarpon rod into a musky rod.. basically. Take it out and test both tips casting a wet musky fly. I would imagine that extra tip might well come in handy on a tarpon trip.
Now you have a 13wt, lol
First boom
I could not do that.