salvelinusfontinalis
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There are a few rods in my collection that I just wont part with, ever. Those rods are special to ME for whatever reason and they really bring me great joy in fishing with them. I like rods with Personality and feel. It also has to be functional and really excel at what my intentions are, but then a thought occurred to me.
You get this rod you truly value but then throw it in an old rod tube.
"The rod was actually started By Vince Cummings,I can provide you with a picture of the rod in the pile of materials when received.
The Only part of the rod that was done by Vince was the Grip had been turned and that was all,I have left the original grip in place as received,if you like I can clean and fill the grip,of course at no additional cost.
Personally thought it was better left in it's original condition. "
The rod maker whom owned this rod had purchased during the estate sale of Vince Cummings flyshop. Andy can only surmise that this was just one of those rods he started but never completed. I own 3 Vince Cummings rods now and he was by far my favorite custom rod builder. Having known people that knew him personally, I love all the stories I hear about him. Great fisherman too. I like to think he is tickled pink that the dusty old thing in the corner of his shop, the rod that watched the master for years and saw rod after rod go out the door to go be enjoyed finally found its calling; coming a river rod and one of my very favorite rods ever.
Andy finished the rod and balanced to rod to the weight of my reel with the removable rod butts by adding weight in them. 1 butt is long and is tapered exactly to the blank. When the second handle is in this rod is powerful and can cast 10wt WF. This makes it at great hairbug bass rod but also a great Muskie rod for the River. It is also a streamer fishermans dream in this config. Works great with a DT8 and sink tips. The smaller stubby butt doesn't go into the blank as far. When this is in the rod is a superior smallmouth popper rod. Tosses DT8 like a dream.
With no butts in it can toss a DT7 and could fish long leadered dryflies to larger river trout.
The rod is amazing.
The rod was named the" Susquehanna Special"
When Andy shipped me the rod, it came in a long piece of square brown plastic drain pipe with Cedar Endcaps glossed and pinned &
Brass Hinged and Latched. Certainly a very cool rod tube but I want to jazz it up. Especially since Its an American rolled fiberglass fly rod blank by JF Fisher, partly built by the Master of Glass himeslf American Rod builder Vince Cummings and left to be the rod that dreamed and finished by OYRS who was an fantastic American rod builder himself.
So...
I had been collecting these for sometime, but i got a few more just to finish this one project. To me this rod is special, not just because its rare, unique and useful but it also has a story........
I wrapped the tube in black para chord. I then adorned the tube with all kinds of PA Game and Fish, Boyscout and the Susquehanna Waterfowlers patches as they relate to the River.
I think Im going to do my Hardy Rods like this too......
You get the idea.
You guys with circular tubes would have an easier time with this, The square part made it hard. All the patches are ironed and glued. They wont come off. I got a long plastic sleeve to protect them during storage.
We are lucky we still have game commissions that spoil us with stupid stuff ;-)
You get this rod you truly value but then throw it in an old rod tube.
"The rod was actually started By Vince Cummings,I can provide you with a picture of the rod in the pile of materials when received.
The Only part of the rod that was done by Vince was the Grip had been turned and that was all,I have left the original grip in place as received,if you like I can clean and fill the grip,of course at no additional cost.
Personally thought it was better left in it's original condition. "
The rod maker whom owned this rod had purchased during the estate sale of Vince Cummings flyshop. Andy can only surmise that this was just one of those rods he started but never completed. I own 3 Vince Cummings rods now and he was by far my favorite custom rod builder. Having known people that knew him personally, I love all the stories I hear about him. Great fisherman too. I like to think he is tickled pink that the dusty old thing in the corner of his shop, the rod that watched the master for years and saw rod after rod go out the door to go be enjoyed finally found its calling; coming a river rod and one of my very favorite rods ever.
Andy finished the rod and balanced to rod to the weight of my reel with the removable rod butts by adding weight in them. 1 butt is long and is tapered exactly to the blank. When the second handle is in this rod is powerful and can cast 10wt WF. This makes it at great hairbug bass rod but also a great Muskie rod for the River. It is also a streamer fishermans dream in this config. Works great with a DT8 and sink tips. The smaller stubby butt doesn't go into the blank as far. When this is in the rod is a superior smallmouth popper rod. Tosses DT8 like a dream.
With no butts in it can toss a DT7 and could fish long leadered dryflies to larger river trout.
The rod is amazing.
The rod was named the" Susquehanna Special"
When Andy shipped me the rod, it came in a long piece of square brown plastic drain pipe with Cedar Endcaps glossed and pinned &
Brass Hinged and Latched. Certainly a very cool rod tube but I want to jazz it up. Especially since Its an American rolled fiberglass fly rod blank by JF Fisher, partly built by the Master of Glass himeslf American Rod builder Vince Cummings and left to be the rod that dreamed and finished by OYRS who was an fantastic American rod builder himself.
So...
I had been collecting these for sometime, but i got a few more just to finish this one project. To me this rod is special, not just because its rare, unique and useful but it also has a story........
I wrapped the tube in black para chord. I then adorned the tube with all kinds of PA Game and Fish, Boyscout and the Susquehanna Waterfowlers patches as they relate to the River.
I think Im going to do my Hardy Rods like this too......
You get the idea.
You guys with circular tubes would have an easier time with this, The square part made it hard. All the patches are ironed and glued. They wont come off. I got a long plastic sleeve to protect them during storage.
We are lucky we still have game commissions that spoil us with stupid stuff ;-)
