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Looking for half a fly rod... - remo_5_0 - 11-20-2014
Here is an odd search, I have the top section of a 2 PC. St.Croix Legend Ultra, I have contacted St. Croix and they do not have lower sections, does anyone by chance have a lower section of a 5 weight 2 PC. Rod laying around that I can buy? Gonna Frankenstein a rod together.
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Re: [remo_5_0] Looking for half a fly rod... - fiveweight - 11-21-2014
Remo,
I don't want to get your hopes up. But I have 1/2 of a St.Croix pole. I don't know what kind of St.Croix or what 1/2 it is, I can't remember. I do know its a 5wt. I will check tonight when I get home, and pm you.
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Re: [fiveweight] Looking for half a fly rod... - remo_5_0 - 11-21-2014
Thanks, let me know. Odd request I know, but might as well try to find a half [laugh]
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Re: [remo_5_0] Looking for half a fly rod... - riverdog - 11-21-2014
I mainly have extra upper pieces I've found over the years and couldn't locate the owner. But I've used a found tip piece from a 4 pc rod that the ferrules fit into the lower half of a 2 piece rod that otherwise appears to be the same model. That Frankenrod actually casts incredible well. It's a Redington but this gets around their old weakness with 2 piece rods always snapping for no reason in the upper section.
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Re: [remo_5_0] Looking for half a fly rod... - RockyRaab - 11-21-2014
If all else failsremo, use your orphan tip section to make an ice rod.
I did just that by cutting the butt section of a junk spinning rod off a bit above the cork grip. The fly rod tip just fit inside the old spinning rod, and a dab of epoxy is all I needed to have a great ice rod.
I cut the old rod a tad short. In hindsight, I should have kept the hook keeper. Wasn't thinking when I sliced just below it.
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Re: [RockyRaab] Looking for half a fly rod... - Flyfishinglover - 11-21-2014
Might just try that out on my old fly rods that broke in the past.
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Re: [remo_5_0] Looking for half a fly rod... - DKStroutfitter - 12-05-2014
Is the lower half broken or do you not have it at all?
I ask because it has a lifetime warranty on it.
I wonder what they would do to replace it, if they don't have a bottom half?
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Re: [DKStroutfitter] Looking for half a fly rod... - remo_5_0 - 12-05-2014
Don't have the bottom half, it broke and I sent it in for warranty, but then I upgraded to a different rod and still had the top half of a nice St.Croix Legend Ultra..called St.Croix to see if I could buy a bottom section, told they don't have any.
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Re: [remo_5_0] Looking for half a fly rod... - joshomaru - 12-07-2014
Put a cork handle on it and turn it into an ice fishing rod.
You have to change out the bottom two guides to bigger spinning rod guides, and I have found you need a new eye on the tip because the fly rod eye freezes up.
I've made a few this way. They don't have enough backbone for anything other than panfish, but it is still fun to reel up a fish on something you made from something you can't use anymore.
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Re: [joshomaru] Looking for half a fly rod... - RockyRaab - 12-07-2014
I removed the bottom snake guide on mine and added a larger spinning guide a few inches toward the tip. That helped a lot with either an under-rod lever cast reel or my new choice: an inline ice reel.
You can usually find an old spinning rod at a yard sale for a dollar. Use just the handle and one or two guides, plus your flyrod tip section.
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Re: [remo_5_0] Looking for half a fly rod... - remo_5_0 - 02-11-2015
I think I just cobbled together a new 5 wt. Found a lower section of a TFO 5 wt. on Ebay for $15, should work with my top section of St. Croix [laugh]
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