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Post by JayP on May 15, 2006 9:59:07 GMT -5
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Post by rrw35 on May 15, 2006 10:52:57 GMT -5
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Post by JayP on May 15, 2006 12:20:47 GMT -5
Nice work RRW! Dull as dishwater now  Why do rod manufacturers have to make their rods so bloody shiny?  Ohh and forget the Gatti all as some muppet has lost the plot with it.......... |
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Post by mesajoe on May 15, 2006 16:01:48 GMT -5
I'm partial to brilloing my rods too mate.  I admire your courage, not many people would take a brillo pad to a TCR... I thought you could use pumice power and oil mixed to make a gloss finish into a matt finish... |
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Post by fishgb on May 15, 2006 23:54:59 GMT -5
Check out my stealth TCR..  Whilst I am partial to using an ultra fine grade of wire wool on my rods - I thought the point of the TCR was that one could cast over the horizon and therefore hiding behind blades of grass, casting parallel to the water with a non-flash rod was not necessary gb |
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Post by MJB on May 16, 2006 5:36:07 GMT -5
Why do rod manufacturers have to make their rods so bloody shiny? St Croix don't. |
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Post by sgt.colon on May 16, 2006 5:38:08 GMT -5
Surely a shiny rod is not off putting to the fish?!?!?!  |
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Post by fishgb on May 16, 2006 6:06:28 GMT -5
Surely a shiny rod is not off putting to the fish?!?!?! Too right it does - rod flash, line flash......... I have even worried about my watch glass reflecting. On our rivers we have stopped using braided leaders because of the water spray, the fish are that wary! gb |
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Post by The Otter Startler on May 16, 2006 6:41:04 GMT -5
Edward Barder - he of the most perfect varnish on cane fame, when fishermen ask:
"Won't the flash of the rod put the fish down"
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"You shouldn't be waving it over their heads then should you!"
A side cast is what you want if you are that close.
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Post by jan on May 16, 2006 7:06:31 GMT -5
Why do rod manufacturers have to make their rods so bloody shiny? St Croix don't. but then they make them the right length and you go and shorten them! ;D |
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