The “F’ed” up was the first blank I attempted to make when me and Lee started the poor mans quad project. After making a myriad of mistakes, it sat on the top of my bookshelf while I made a little Banty for practice and then got distracted and never actually completed a proper rod. Recently, I decided I may as…
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Poor Man’s Quad #1 Finished!
I finally got around to finishing my first PMQ (poor man’s quad). We’ve done a few earlier posts on the building process, so I just wanted to share a few quick lessons learnt from the process. 1. Use quality bamboo (Tonkin cane). If you’re going to invest the time and effort, you might as well use decent materials. I started…
Poor mans quad project… Part 3- Practice
The rod I hope to get by the end of this project is a shortish 4/5 weight, for fishing tight overgrown streams. I envisage mainly using it as a dry fly weapon, but I want a little versatility from it. Something that throws a size 18 adams nicely, but will be happy enough throwing bigger dries, like hoppers, cicadas and…
Poor man’s quad project… Part 2.
Part one– We decide to build ourselves bamboo rods Lee picks up some cane and gets some much needed advice from an expert After Hamish’s infectious enthusiasm to build a PMQ got the better of me, the first thing we needed was cane. I googled tonkin cane, full of expectations of cheap bundles being sent directly to my door. I…
The poor mans quad project… Part 1.
Where two rank amateurs (foolishly?) decide they can build their own bamboo rods I think in tangents. A seemingly simply distraction, a stray thought and suddenly I am away- some new idea has formed and I am off and running in often surprising directions, often 180 degrees from where I just was. While this can make me a frustrating man…