One of the "Big Ones" was finished

I was working hard the last 2 days, but... the work was done. When I returned from my "Dorado trip" I decided to make a rod with special features to cover this "marathon" type of fishing.
I needed a taper that let me cast big flies, to long distances, a rod that can hold a #7 floating line or a Teeny 200 Shooting taper. Also a rod that feels light but... with big backbone and strong as a rock.
I finished with a CFH867SS 8' 6" #7 Hollow Build Sealed Series. The rod because of the BOBFS (Bamboo on Bamboo Ferrule System) performs like a 9' and I was casting it today at the lawn.
Not the best day to do it because is one of these hard humidity days, practically without any kind of wind. Dense very dense...
Average cast using a WF7F line between 98 & 105 feet's... not bad. I couldn't take measures for the Teeny, because they were out of limits of home.
I'm really happy with this rod and I know that it would be a Classic.
This is how it looks.

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Dancing with "Boos" III

Here's the transformation process. Again "dance" can be used as example. Why?... because again a couple are going to share all this experience. I like to compare this stage of the rod making process with "Tango" because very passionated actions take place at this moment. After I select the piece of cane and the taper to use, I need to convince her... The piece of cane must be cut, measured, separate in pieces, nodes are taken, all under pressure... but with grace, with passion, with love to get "her" convinced to finish as a blank that would be the first part of the magic transformation from a dead piece of grass into a great fishing bamboo rod for the rest of it's life.
That's the reason why, I love to hand planing all my rods, because I dance with my partner every step of this wonderful music, and while transformation flows, after any step I know more and more about "she".
Music by one of the masters Astor Piazolla "Cité Tango".

Sunday's fish pictures

Native name "Dentudo" (Oligosarcus Hepsetus). This fish can be found in many fresh water rivers and lagoons here in Argentina. Normally is taken when we're looking for other fish like Dorado or Tarariras, but he itself could be a great fly fishing option if we use the correct stuff.
I prefer to use one of my Short Series Rods the 5' 10" with a #3 line and dry flies.

Saturday's Rod in action sequences

Some years ago, I made a special "One Tip" Rod Series. This help me to introduce my rods into markets like United States, Canada, Switzerland, UK and others. This rod was made to Mr. Bob Ross from US and is a CFH806OT 8' #6 Hollow Build One Tip Series.



I received the following email from Bob after he fished his new rod:

Hi Marcello,

I had a great day yesterday on the Upper Provo using my CFH8060T.

I have been using this rod a lot lately.

I consider it a great all purpose rod for everything but the small creeks in this part of the world - Utah, Idaho, Montana.

A lot of our waters are still quite high from a big snow year - so the fishing right now can involve a lot of dry/dropper rigs with a little bit of lead to get the nymph down.

Not the perfect set-up for most cane rods - but this rod handles the awkward rig without any problems and then when I put on a dry fly.................sweet.

This picture shows the best fish of the day - a 19" Brown Trout.

I am the guy with the gray mustache holding the rod - the young man holding the fish is Ryan Barnes.

Ryan guides out of our best fly shop......Western Rivers and he is a member of this years USA Fly Fishing Team that will compete in the International competition in Sweden in August.

Ryan worked for Jorge Truco as a guide for a couple of seasons a few years ago - SMALL WORLD!!

Ryan asked to cast your rod and really liked it.

Regards,
Bob Ross



I feel great every time I receive some letter like this one because I love to see my rods "in action", I always claim "please take your rod fishing every time you can", because when I made one of my rods, my mind points only in one direction "F I S H I N G"



Thank you very much Bob!, for your email and for that wonderful fish.