Building a Simple Fly Fishing Rod Box for the old backup rod!
If there is an opportunity to fish I will take it but, and I don’t mean to brag here, I’m really good at fly fishing. At least at one part of fly fishing. I’m really good at breaking my 5 weight fly fishing rods!
So, a long time ago I learned to always have a backup rod or two in the car. In fact, I remember that day on the Yellow Breaches Creek. There were 4 of us out there but I rod with my buddy Nick. Set up the rod behind the car in the parking lot. Put on my waders and boots, stood up and stepped sideways. I remember a slow motion, “snappppppp”. Nick had watched it happen in real time, which was far from enough time to stop me. Most quality rods come with a really decent replacement warranty so all of mine have been sent off BUT that doesn’t help on the stream so out came the cheapy.
It’s really really not a good rod BUT as with most things, it’s how you use it… right? And frankly, if you break it… it’s not an $200-$800 loss. So that helps ease a lot of tension walking through brush! No tension on you builds confidence in your rod and fly. That absolutely means more fish.
I have a good number of rods for all types of fishing styles. That fly rod has easily caught me at least three times as many fish as all the other rods/styles combined. So, after all these years that cheap fly fishing rod is finally getting a home!
The Build
So, this isn’t going to be the hexagon rod box or octagon rod boxes that bamboo fly fishing rods come in. We’ll get there in time. This is a simple box with old school hand tools, planes, saws and jigs. I have really enjoyed my boxing day box build and I really enjoy the new mitre jig. So please check those videos out (in the cards in the video) but first check out this video and enjoy!
Cheers!
Clean Phil Wanted
The cheap fly rod:
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The Tenkara rod (Japanese Mountain Fly Fishing):
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My Hand Tools:
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Tools;
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Brass Back Saw – http://amzn.to/2oEOo8N
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