Awesome! Love it!

nice work!

Cool - it's a lot of fun, and they're great blanks. Supposed to be warm this Sunday so thinking I might get it on the water for the first time - can't wait!

Wow the world has changed since I finished this build! Having been stuck in the house for the last ten days it felt great to get out on the water.

This streams is pretty much a put and take fishery in the Spring, but it does have a run of landlocks in the Fall, and I've caught rainbows, browns and lake trout in the fall that have also run up from the reservoir. I've seen small brookies in here before, but never actually caught one.

They stocked rainbows this week so I gave it a shot this morning. Talked to one guy (from a safe distance!) and he said he came by yesterday and there was a power bait and bucket brigade going to town on the fish that had just been stocked. I know the world likes that the stocking schedule is posted on the internet so they know where to fish, but if everyone starts fishing the one pool they stocked right away the fish just don't disperse. The pool was literally empty this morning.

I gave up and walked upstream for the heck of it, and there I caught my first fish on this rebuild.



Made my day.

So far I've fished it with a Wulff Triangle Taper 7 weight, which was very smooth casting with even a little weight on a fly. Today I was using a Rio StreamerTip WF7F/I, as the water where I was fishing was a little higher and I figured the fish would be down in the deeper pools.

I really like fishing it - I've had it out 2x both on relatively small streams, so I've yet to try to cast it more than 50 feet - just no need for that. It's a great tool in close, and yet the few times I've cast longer just for the fun of it I could feel the power down in the butt. It's certainly slower than my 8'6" Morgan that I built out a few years ago.

In terms of mending line, again I was mending in close and streamer fishing, so not a ton of subtlety required, but no complaints.

I've only had one fish put a bend in it, and that brookie was not huge, but there was a nice bend, so that was fun.

The stream is an old favorite, about 45 minutes from my home in Boston's Western Suburbs. It is a pretty stream, and it would be even better if it had a fly only section, but alas it does not!