Listened to an interview with Hal Janssen on the Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast. Quite entertaining to hear Hal talk, but the interviewer had a tough time keeping him on topic. He does spend some time explaining how graphite rods are not good fishing tools.

What I could gather Hal uses a 2wt fiberglass rod for all his stillwater fishing that he built himself. He uses a sinking line and light Hardy reels.

However the specifics were not mentioned. Does anyone know what length and what blank he's using and what sinking lines?

Hal built his rods on blanks rolled to his specs by Fisher. 8 ft and a bit shorter were ones I remember. Very soft. They had extremely short grips and uplocking reel seats. Off center ferruled for a long tip section.

I started tying flies according to the classic English patterns as that's all that was in the books I could find.. then learned to tie flies from a book by Hal, so pretty much all my flies since then are influenced by his tying methods. Can't remember the title or find it anymore..