One of my friends who had cast the spinning rod described in Report 1 did a strange experiment: He put a fly reel on it with a 4 wt. line.

The result was really interesting: the rod cast almost the full line. When I heard of this, I tried it myself and decided immediately to build something to be put in a rucksack.

I built this rod as a 4 piece! With one spinning tip and one fly-fishing tip and with one spinning grip and one flyrod grip. I wished I could put some pictures of this rod on my site, but I sold the rod immediately at the Fly Fishing Show in Somerset, New Jersey. Next autumn I will build more of these rods and can, then, post pictures.

The complete set fits in a rucksack due to the section length of 47 cm (18 ½ inches). The rod is perfectly functional in both fly-fishing and casting the 4 gram lures mentioned in Report 1. I like this set so much that one of the new rods will be in my rucksack on all my hiking trips in Norway. The rods will feature lined rings as described earlier (smaller versions of the same type on the fly tip).

With this set, great areas of water can be covered, from any rocky or overgrown position. The ferrules I used are truncated Swiss-type ferrules and they do not influence the rod’s action in any negative way. Building the rod is time consuming and is comparable to building two rods but it is a fascinating set that can be used frequently.

Update: 3 April 2009
Finally the long promised pictures of the fly/spin combination rod as described in this report. It is one of my favourites!



Leen Huisman, Tjerkwerd, 9 July 2008

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