Cabela's...REALLLYYY??

Rick - it's been awhile since I shot a hammer double, but recently I got to use my buddies custom bamboo fly rod. My goodness, never cast a double taper line so well!

I'm guessing at our age we have just about all we require, except maybe more time to use it. Your correct about the big box stores, but our foundation was built in the old shops and the friendships we built there.

There are places that do cater to your "afflictions". The sticker shock in those shops may have you reaching for the little white Nitro pills...

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require and desire are different concepts - Hammer guns are just plain fun. I restored an old 10 bore British waterfowl gun last year, from a bunch of non working parts to a fun piece to shoot.

As for bamboo rods, I took a very involved class and am trying my hand at making mine.
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I agree Vince, about the local shop when you can, and the choices of shops and their stock selection is shrinking

since I lean towards hammer doubles and bamboo rods, no one is much help to my afflictions

but, unfortunately there are things that are hard to find any place but the big boxes

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Rick: Not sure where you are from, but if you like bamboo fly rods, you should consider a mid-winter excursion to Maine for the annual "Super Boo" event organized by rod maker and author Kathy Scott and a variety of Maine rodmakers.

http://www.aldercreekpublishing.com/kathy_scott.htm

I think the event is going on it's 12th season now. It started as a bunch of cane rod makers and anglers getting together in a high school gym to cast rods on the Saturday before the Super Bowl. It's truly amazing--more than a hundred folks will show up, most of them bringing rods they'll let anyone cast. A few of the crazier builders and collectors will bring dozens of rods. Some of the builders are among the best known in the business. Some of the builders you never heard of bring rods that cast better than the name ones. There are typically some rods for sale or trade, but it's mostly about casting and talking cane, rather than selling it. I'm pretty sure you could enhance your bamboo affliction.

Here's a link to some of the discussion after last year's event to give you the flavor: http://forum.flyfishinginmaine.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=20403&hilit=superboo

If you live within driving distance of Waterville Maine, it's free unless you buy a raffle ticket. If not, hotel rooms in Waterville are cheap in the winter . . . .

Over the years, I've cast rods there from all kinds of makers, including some that are probably worth considerably more than my truck.


It's a lot better than the kind of stuffy fly shops where I got my first glance at bamboo rods, and was basically made to feel I might have to mortgage the house to cast one!

Sorry for the hijack, but Superboo is way more fun than a trip to Cabelas, and you can stop at their Scarborough Maine store on your way here if you must.
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no problem Jeff, i have not made it to Super boo yet but am proud to call Kathy and David friends. I get my bamboo fix in September at the Catskills Gathering.
 
I was in a Cabelas near Seattle a couple of months ago and was astounded at the amount of low- grade Chinese made junk that was in their broken returned room. Today I was in the Richmond Va Orvis
store, looking for some bumpers its a cloths shop with K-Mart style Chinese dog toys. >At least the small local stores seem to know a little more about their stock but even they are converting to black gun shops. I like supporting small shops but am forced to shop The Internet.
 
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