redneck mini-spey

[fishermandan420]

I had a 10' 7w in the garage missing 8 inches of tip, and thought id try a spey line on it. Seemed nice so into the workshop i went. Found a suitable butt in my inventory of casualties, sawed off 5 inches and epoxied a bolt in it. Then i drilled and tapped the butt of the reelseat to accept the 5/16 bolt. Seemed alright, but the plug in the butt came out, so i epoxied in a nylon lockin nut in the seat behind "butt plug". Came out better than i thought for a quick jobbie and blasts a 350gn scandi body a country mile. Now i need some steel to really test it !

 

[JDean]

Sweet. Gotta love making stuff that works from stuff that was sitting around

 

[IR4Jflyfishing]

Did this with a 9' 5wt fiberglass this year! too much fun on browns

 

[Dozer]

Nice butt end

 

[fishermandan420]

No more long car rides with you! We'll end up on some deadend road …

 

[fishermandan420]

I tried it today at the pond. Bombs out 60 ft easy. Thats all i need from this. Found the 23 ft head a little long so maybe an ambush line would be nice.

 

[IR4Jflyfishing]

If you have any bigger skagit lines lying around you can always cut one down, Ive got a 12 foot roughly 300g on my 5 and its beautiful

 

[fishermandan420]

Nothing around to chop. Airflo is supposed to have some new switch heads coming out this year. Might look into those too. WA lines aren't cheap !

 

[IR4Jflyfishing]

I have a couple airflo skagit shorts that are 19 foot heads which could be nice on a 10 ( Ive got them on my 10'7) maybe even a rio switch chucker

 

[fishermandan420]

Was just looking at them too. I have the skag short 480 and 510 for my switch and spey. The 360 might work at 18.5 ft. I might wait and see what the new switch streamer is all about and see if.i can make the scandi.body.work for now

 

[IR4Jflyfishing]

If you find your way out by me you can borrow that 360 18.5 skagit short.

 

[Dozer]

Dead ends lead to hidden treasures

 

[fishermandan420]

That's just wrong!
IR if im headed out that way ill give ya a buzz. Thanks for the offer

 

[Shmogley]

nice little hand cannon there, good luck with the steels