Cabelas 3d carp3/11/2023 Are you freaking kidding me? These companies in this economy want people to pay $700 for a fly rod? That price doesn't even include the reel, line, backing, flies, waders, fly boxes, tippets, leaders etc that one needs to fly fish. Six of them I might add are actually over $700. Of those, only one of them is under $300, three are $400 or less (including the one under $300), and the rest are over $500. Loomis, Orvis, Redington, Sage, Scott, Thomas and Thomas and Winston are discussed and reviewed. In the January/February 2013 issue of American Angler, Gear of the Year for 2013 is discussed. Then that price tag becomes ever so important. I guess one doesn't really pay attention to a price tag until one has to fork out money for something. I have to say while I always "knew" the prices, I never really "knew" the prices. This time, I paid a little more attention to the rods and prices since I am in the market for a new one. As always, I flipped through it immediately. I got my Orvis catalog in the mail a few weeks back. See the reason is and the point of this rant, is the price of those rods. Would I love to have an Orvis or a Sage.yep. I can honestly say now that I am OK with that. I will further state that I don't own a rod from any of the really big manufacturers such as Orvis, Sage, Scott, or Thomas and Thomas to name but a few. Croix, two Eagle Claw Featherlights, a Cablea's rod, and two Cabela's CGRs. None of them, I repeat none of them, cost more than one hundred and seventy-nine dollars. Over the course of my twenty year fly fishing adventure I have picked up a few rods here and there. It is a great rod that I got at a great price. I don't just love it because it is glass either. The point here is that the rod was sixty dollars and I love it. However, that is not the point of the story here. Funny how the Waterworks-Lamson Konic reel I use with this rod actually cost more than the rod itself. It is a Cabela's Custom Glass Rod I picked up last year for like sixty dollars. The biggest rod I have now is a 6wt (I need an 8 and/or a 9 wt at least for this trip). In an effort to gear up for this trip I have been looking at buying a new rod or three. I am not going to talk about any old fly rods but those fly rods that are overpriced in my humble opinion.Īs most of you know, I will be heading to Beaver Island in July to chase smallmouth and carp on the fly rod. I want to spend some time talking about fly rods. So sit down and buckle up for a bumpy ride. Yes I will be flailing my arms and possibly using bad language. Last edited by CrappiePappy 05-10-2012 at 08:39 PM.I apologize in advance but this is going to be a rant. Least he could've put a reasonable amount of line on there and just given me the excess. I had to pull so much line off both reels, because while i was casting the line would not come out cleanly, but rather in bunches and get tangled up, or during the retrieve, the line would slip off the spool and get caught up in the gears underneath the spool. I finally take the two reels out of the bag, this guy filled up both reels to the max, well beyond max. I take the bag pay for my stuff and go home. I come back and he says its all done and there was enough line for the smaller one. I'm thinking, well why didn't you spool the small one first? I told him to continue on and if its not enough, I'll pick up a second package of Sufix Siege 4lb Clear. When i came back to the counter, he tells me that he doesn't think there will be enough line for the smaller one. The smaller one can only take 110yds of the 4lb line, while the larger one can take 260 yds of the 4lb line. Now the two reels are not the same size, one is smaller than the other, therefore the smaller one isn't going to take up nearly as much line as the bigger one. Yesterday i took two of my reels in to get rid of the Nano-fil 6lb line i have been using for a clearer more stretchy mono line. Normally i take advantage of the free line spooling they do for you.
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