New Bluegill rod.

[Tony Livingston]

Finally got to break this thing in. Our own Walt Foreman built it for me as a specialty BG rod, designed for casting lightweight offerings without any added weight, or float, while still experiencing the awesome fight of a big Bluegill.

It's built on a 2-weight flyrod blank,  but I'll let the builder fill in the rest of the details.......

What I can attest to, is the sheer functionality and beauty of this rod.....

Thanks Walt, looking forward to putting it through it's paces!!

 

 

 

[Randy Goad]

Being a Gill enthusiast I joined the forum but was led here by doing research on rods made by Walt Foreman. I am really pumped that I have decided to have Walt build me a rod. 

                                                                                     Regards

[John Cachel]

Nice rod!

[Jen Nayfly]

Wow outstanding! Love the feathers in there! YOU are a lucky man!

[DAVID L EITUTIS]

EVERYTIME I SEE THIS PARTICULAR ROD I like it more and more. Great Job Walt and the feather touch has been around years , but not alot of fellas used it . Never did a feather myself as a decoration and stick to simple basic stuff myself as I'm to old to do this quality of work anymore. You should be proud of your work and did you use a high build finish like U-40 or Flex Coat ? Great work buddy and it is a work of art in my opinion...........

[dick tabbert]

Nice rod Tony looks like it should be very sensitive. Can't see the upper half but the bottom half looks beefy.

[Walt Foreman]

Thanks for all the compliments, everyone!  David, to answer your question, I do use a high-build finish - for this rod it was ProKote, though lately I've been using Threadmaster.  Feather inlays seem to be popular these days as I see a lot of them on custom builder websites.  

Dick, this rod is actually super-super-light, lighter by a good stretch than any factory UL rod made.  It's made on a 2-weight fly rod blank - the blank weighs less than an ounce before thread or components are added, .7 oz. to be exact.  The max line test I recommend to be used with it is 4-lb.

I'm working on a couple new rods at present - one of them should be ready in a week or so.  I don't have a shop, and my lathe is outdoors on a patio, so I'm just waiting at the moment for a day in the fifties so I can get outside long enough to do some handle work.  

[DAVID L EITUTIS]

THANKS WALT FOR THE INFO and reel interesting and I see that QUALITY WORK IS NOT DEAD , but it is on life support!!!!! YOU CUSTOM BUILDERS DOING GREAT WORK are the way things should be done and all to sadly today aren't. I"m envious...........

[Walt Foreman]

Thanks, David, much appreciated!  

[John Cachel]

I use St. Croix 7 ft ulta-light and Bass Pro Shop Micro Lite 7ft 6" rods for long time. I like it very much! Throsands of bluegills for me. I went to Cabelas to look around and I found a nice rod that should be good! I bought Dawa Presso 8 ft ultra-light rod. It's very nice IM7, fast tip and ultra-light 2 to 6 lbs test line. Its perfect for 4 lbs test line and It should able to cast little farther than my old rods. I felt my new 8 ft rod and I can feel when my wife blow to my rod's tip!

[steve bernadowicz]

Very nice ! Am just re-joining this web sight now. Gotta admit, less user friendly. Cannot see where to click to start a thread, can't find the groups there used to be. The background art makes it difficult to read some of the stuff on the screen,etc.. New, is NOT always improved. At a small local fishin' shop found a line of rods from some folks in Mi.. Whip-R Rods. Billed as the "ultimate panfish rods". I'm taking a 5'6" one to trout camp in April for Brookies. Anyone here trying them ?   steve b

[carl hendrix]

Tony;; no wonder you love that rod !  its a thing of beauty !!  hand lathed wood; marble look; feather decoration-- only thing I see wrong with it is-- I DONT OWN IT !!   has to be a blast fishing with it ;; what is the biggest fish you caught with it ??

[DAVID L EITUTIS]

YUP OLE WALT DOES SOME NICE WORK FOR SURE , WELL  THAT'S TO UNDERSTATED FOR SURE ." JUST PLAIN OUTSTANDING IN EVERY WAY"