Roaring River 11/25/16

It's the day after Thanksgiving and Marshall and I went to Roaring River for Catch and Release. It started out around 40 and the sun came out. Wonderful morning!!!! I caught about 30+ fish. The killer worm was the ticket like always!!! We fished a couple hours and took off. Here is some proof!!

Hello again,
It's been way to long. It's been a interesting summer and now fall is about gone also. Rod orders have been good. I've been really busy at work and with my girls. Band season is about over for both and Catch and Release season in starting next week at the State parks. This is the best time of the year for me!! I love it. I took off for next Friday. Yeah!! I'll give a report when I return. I'll take some pictures also. I hope everyone is doing well and getting to fish. Later!!

I said I was going to try and blog a lot more and I'm going to keep my promise. My friend in Norway sent me some pictures of a recent trip.  Espen Westbye sent me some really great pictures and I wanted to share. Thank you Espen!!!

2016

Well the time is here again to try and remember to write 2016. What a pain! What isn't a pain is looking forward to a great year of rod building and fishing. I didn't do much fishing this year which is sad. I'm going to change that this year. Sell, fish, sell, fish! You get the idea. Thanks for a great year. My blanks sold well and I got a lot of really great feed back. I'm not raising my prices this year but I will need to next year. I can't catch a break sometimes with my pricing. Here's a picture of my girls and I on our last outing!! Julia and I caught a lot of fish. I love my girls!!

Fishing

Here's a nice little clip for you. This was during catch and release season. FUN!!

Sorry everyone it's been a long time since I blogged. It's been a good year. Selling a lot of blanks and a good amount of rods. I've seen a rise in sending me the blank for me to build them something special. It's been fun. I've not had a lot of time to go fishing this year but it's been good!! Roaring River has  been great. I don't know how it will be after this last toad strangler!!! I'm going to try and be better about blogging. Thanks for coming to see me!!!

RDPFLYRODS blanks

I've seen a few things on the Internet lately that I should address.  My rod blanks are made just for me only. In the early years of building I did use Sevier blanks and really liked them. It got hard to keep up with orders so I started to look for help in designing and caring my own blanks. I was lucky enough to meet one of the engineers that helped start Sage. He helped me to get what I think is the perfect IM6 blank. I'm forever in his debt. So just so everyone knows these are my blanks made just for me.

I pray that everyone has a great holiday season!!!!!
I also want to thank everyone for a great year! !!