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I had a customer visit me recently and he had supplied some of the components he wanted me to use as a cost saving measure. I was not big on the idea as I was certain in short order he would not be happy with the end result, so I talked him out of it in favour of this one off design based on my earlier seamless fore grip reel seats. Fairly inexpensive but definitely shows that the rod is custom work. He is extremely happy with the direction change.

Hello everyone. My family and I went to Balsam lake recently and received lots of tips from the kind people on this forum on how to fish the lake, this led us to success fishing for walleye and pike, so I figured I should share what we did so others can benefit from it. We trolled 8'-10' weedlines with cranks (Berkeley flicker shad 7 firetiger) for the first two days and caught a good amount of fish, but as the water rose in temperature (63f->66f) we started to troll the 12'-15' weedlines again with cranks and had lots of success with the walleyes in doing so. Occasionally we would let the wind drift us over the weeds and I would either rip a bucktail around or soak a slip bobber with a 3 inch minnow, I caught 3 nice walleye and 2 pike using these methods and they all fought hard. We caught over 25 walleye (most between 16"-20") and 4 pike (24"-28") and a few accidental out of season smallies. All in all it was a fun fishing trip.

Our tax dollars at work... Keep bugging them. they must have a record of your numbers somewhere. I've had mine since 2003 the first year they issued them. I have had to show it when renting small boats a few times but thats it.

Great work as usual Chris.

Nice. At the end of the day it's your product out there. I often send potential customers elsewhere more suited to their budget.

Definitely not when it comes to rod building. This is when you let the pros do their thing. Awesome work as always!

That's fantastic!

You have a regular bakery going there, Rick! Doug

In this instance why not teach them how to catch some sunfish and perch? Open all year, bountiful and easy to catch.