Jayhad

I just picked some of the ONEs and I was able to fish the 7wt 10' for 3 days last week. I was a huge Z fan, but the ONE is everything they say it is and more. First off they feel remarkably light, the 7100 feels lighter than my Z 4100. Casting the stick is truly effortless, maybe a couple of the guys that tried the stick with me will chime in. I was taken back at how little effort I needed to bust out 60' roll casts even with heavy rigs. I picked the rod up to be my go to streamer stick for the Bow. The grip is interesting and after 15 minutes I didn't notice that I only like cigar grips and I found it stay put in your hand. The cork is some of the nicest Sage has offered in a long time. I would say the rod is most comparable to a XP, but with more power and less weight. I feel the XPs don't deliver in spey casts, where as the ONE always seems to want to shoot more and more line. I found I could forget about casting and focus on fishing... Truly you need to cast one of these sticks to appreciate what Sage did. I was very skeptical that they could DRAMATICLY improve on the Z and Sage did in spades. The rod delivers pin point accuracy at any distance. My only complaint may be line based but I need to play around with lines on the Ones a bit more. I threw a RIO Gold on the 7100... I should have been casting a sink tip as that's what I want the rod for. I found up to 40' it was hard to feel the rod load but i typically cast lines with heads in the 65'-70' range where as the Rio Gold is only 47' so it is probably my issue and not the rod. Take what I said with a grain of salt as I am a Sage guy, and when the ONEs came out I was pretty anti ONE. I really didn't think they could improve on the Z..... they did and now I'm trying to figure out how to get my hands on more of them

Nor-vise

Chris, you are correct about the SP being the first Durascrim blank, I tend to lump SP and SP+ in the same breath as i do RPL and RPL+ and RPLXi or the newer VT and TXL series, sorry for the confusion. As for the the movie I was kinda guessing there, with out checking i thought it was 1994, but Oct 92 and Sage dropping the SP a couple months later was what i was getting at...... that was a long time ago.

X3..... still funny

It's been a while chucking a SP+ for me but I think they two should be fairly similar, but the TCX will be remarkably lighter.

The SP+, first stick with Durascrim, 64 Million modulus graphite, casts buggers like a slingshot. did you buy it because of "the movie?" It came out the same year so Sage really benefitted from Brad. Those sticks were rifles, I don't own one (why not?) and haven't had the pleasure to fish one since '98. If memory serves me correct it was a dramatic departure from the previous Graphite II actions. The SP+s were never as popular as the RPLs in the region I lived and I think Sage sold more RPLs than SP+s. Was your SP+ a 2 or 3 piece? the 3 pieces are fairly rare. Do you not have the option of getting the SP+? Sage has always stated they keep the mandrels of past models so they can provide warranties. I would personally think the SP+ is more similar to a Z than a TCX, perhaps the Sage employee is just looking at model value. The TCX's came from the TCR's (Tournament Casting Rod), which for 95% of the market were virtually uncontrollable. If you cast like a master they were incredible, generating line speeds and pin point accuracy that was unparalleled. BUT it became quickly evident that the TCR was a nightmare for the average angler, it magnifies faults in your cast unlike any other rod out there. Solution tame the rod down a bit and wham we have the TCX. I like to collect Sage sticks but I have to fish them, because of this I have never owned a singlehand TCX, I don't see it as the best option in Sage's line up. I do know some guys that love the TCXs for streamer fishing. Do you have the option of getting a ONE? I've only casted the ONEs and I will be fishing them this coming weekend, but in my opinion the One is a well refined Z minus half the weight... actually they almost feel uncomfortabley light..... I can't wait to get my hands on the 7100.

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dude you're right Terry Lake has me as speed dial #2 right after his voice mail, last time we talked he asked me if he should open the fishery, and asked me to keep this on the down low

So it appears that the test fisheries are steel numbers close to the opening threshold. Myself I haven't fished the T 10 years, I miss the fishery, I miss spences, shoot I even miss taken a tumble on those crazy slick rocks and I miss those steelbows. I really want to fish the T. But I have to ask myself do I want to be responsible for just one.....one fish that I may hook deep, when landing I slip on the rocks and drop a fish or just plain release poorly. There is another side to the arguement; that the more eyes on the river is better for the fishes...... I really don't see Peter Powerbait going to the T to whack a couple steels, when all those easy to floss salmon are just a little ways away. What are your thoughts....... I hate to say it but I think I'm going to agree with PGK

I like.... I'm doing Sex Dungeons right now, then worms and stones are on my list for the near future

I have bearing buddies on my aluminum boat's trailer, but not on my skiff's trailer. I am always redoing the bearings on the skiff, never redoing them on the other boat. If you do a quick search on Google you will be hard pressed to find a bad review of the buddies. I don't know how the grease can't get into the bearings when you are pumping into a closed system, but I would suggest you don't use them as well if I was in the business of redoing bearings.

I know it's late but do you want to drift tomorrow friday october 21? i'm thinking glen to 22? 930-1730? you have to be ok with me nymphing beads over redds

You are on a right train of thought Rick but typically you want to keep the over all size the same, there fore less sidewall. If you go to bigger wheels and tires you will first need to see if they fit, and clear everything in the full range of steering. You will also need to get your speedo redone as it won't compute propery with that large of a change. You also have to make sure that if you are turning and hit a bump your new bigger tire won't rip off your fender. A lift would be much easier

My dad started buying Grand Cherokees in 89. I started driving one in 92. They are virtually unstopable, I currently have a fully loaded MINT 99 with the V8, that my dad bought for my mom new I average 11.6L/100k. It will tow pretty much anything I need and they will go anywhere, front and rear solid axles mated to a frame not a unibody. I have passed guys that have huge trucks stuck, my stock jeep makes it by. There are only a few vehicles in their stock form that can complete the Rubicon trail, the Grand Cherokee is one of them. That being said I did get it stuck this spring, I got it high centered. I have completed massive water crossings, I tow my boat all the time and the truck doesn't really notice If you can find a Cherokee with the 3L Diesel get it, those engines are mercedes engines and will run for ever and the have great mileage. It has real 4X4 not AWD.

My wife has had a few different Hyundais they are good cars, they don't have the interior finish of more expensive rides or the paint quality but hey do run. If you have to do any repairs though the parts are crazy expensive. That being said our current Sonata has a gremlin that can't be found that causes the car to hick up at idle. Personally I'd get honda, only because of the bed and it will look more "appropiate" for towing a boat if you really want to do it right buy a grand cherokee

BiggyJ The trip hasn't been booked so july very well may be an option. The season opens on June 15, idealy we would like to be the first group on these systems. i was thinking of flying out of yyc on june 12ish that way we would be on the water opening day, i think. you can't work in a school as a teacher if you're sick wink I'm working out details with two outfitters. May do one outfitter for each river or just one for both that will be for those who commit to the trip to decide

I am looking at doing a trip to mongolia in june 2013, the trip will be professionally guided and I have got a package deal from a well known guide in mongolia. It's not cheap, $6000, plus your flight (currently around $1500.) It's a 15 day trip, 13 fishing and treking on rafts and yak back, 1 day in the capital of Ulaanbaatar on both ends of the trip. 3 gourmet meals, housing will be in tents and Yurts, there are shower tents. Licenses, permits, in country flights, transport and all services included The trip is a treck into northern mongolia headwaters, fishing and treking up drifting down. Fishing for Grayling, Lenok and of course Taimen. The trip has a requirement of 6 anglers, myself and a couple of buddies are interested so we need a few more to go. No commitments are needed but if this is something you would like to entertain please feel free to reply or PM me and I'll set up a Q & A night at a pub.

There's a new drift boat company on the market, Down River Design. I have no ties to the company but I have been rowing the 1st gen San Jaun SKiff this season. I have drifted it alot this season and I feel it is perhaps one of the best designed boats on the water. the boats can be set up to accomidate a wheel chair. They are ultra bouyant and from my understanding can't be swamped. I have taken my low side skiff through the weir in both high and low water this season and rips it like a champ. my only complaint is that my boat only has 1 cup holder???? the new design has 6. The hull is tunnelled, kind of like an inboard jet, off of the tunnel are several soft chimes. in the toughest off water the boat will stop and rise up with little to no effort. The hulls are super wide and from what everyone that has been in my boat, it's riduculously comfy to fish out of. my boat weighs just over 200, the new ones are heaveir but longer. i'll drop some pics of my boat in a bit. http://www.downriverdesignco.com/

Rightyeegs, we've never met so I have no idea how old you are but do you think this is a generational thing? You stated you have been fishing steal for 15 years. 15 years ago in BC there wasn't much nymphing rivers under indicators beeing done and the time with out the proliferation (sp?) of the internets I would think a lot less of exposure to the practice. Now people see nymphing under indicators as a standard procedure for trout, so perhaps thats where the influx of nymphing come from. Thoughts I was fishing the Chilliwack last winter and I saw 3 dudes nymphing eggs, but i understand you if you started fishing steal 15 years ago there was a lot more tradition and respect. I did notice a few west coast guide's facebook pics last april fishing hatchery brats on the chilliwack with pegged beads and they were killing them........... but they were all fishing pins and filling the freezer

I don't care how you fish, I'll tip my hat to any fly caught rainhead steelbow. Where does this "traditional" steelhead elitist stuff come from? Our fly angling fore fathers whacked and stacked steelhead, just like every other resource they could exploit, there were very few who held the steelhead on the pedistal they now reside. Shoot I remember in the late 80s early 90s when pinners and bird chuckers could occupy the same run, the same plane, the same camp and even enjoy stories of the days exploits over a whiskey and cigar. Is this an age thing? I'd be interested to hear if guys like Art L, care how you fish for steel or if they are just happy you are another steward on the water with a fly stick? If it is truly about the fish why does it matter how the fish is caught? If we can't unite as FLY ANGLERS how can any one expect us to mount any sort of front to combat the forces that hinder these great fish.......... perhaps a C&R T river could be the return????? If we aren't tossing roe glowed bugs shouldn't we have common ground? I'm kinda thinking of this like sex, if you're out of breathe and sticky at the end didn't you do it right regardless of position? I guess some of you guys just can't get past missionary.

That could be argued (From General Money's game book, of the Stamp, all of which were whacked In a note written in his game book on October 14, 1922, the General commented on the fishing he experienced in this uncrowded land: "A grand season 77 fish, averaging just under 7 pounds Rightyeegs, I tend to agree with you, just providing food for thought. If you have never fished for steel, you may think of fishing eggs as an acceptable method, I peg beads pretty much the same deal.. BUT not for steelhead, that's my choice. If someone fishes steels with beads they probably won't do it for long.....

IN the words of betty white, not balls, they're sensitive and fragile they need to grow a vagina, those things can take a pounding

I'd fish them with a (what ever colour the indicator is) Bomber or Air BC.... skate, skate, skate. if that doesn't work dead drift it like the drift an indicator would take

you sure about that....... google is your friend