Thread: Which #6 weight fly rods would you recommend for an intermediate?

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

I take it your rod wrapper is used to apply thread for bindings????? if so do you tie your own flies??? the bobbin you hold your thread with works just fine n dandy.....Ive bought a few rods back to life using that,cotton and nail polish over the years.

Thanks for the tip. My understanding (remember, I haven't done any of this yet) is that a rod wrapper is the motor driven jig to rotate the rod blank while you apply the thread using a bobbin. As you say, I'm going to just use my fly tying bobbin. A rod wrapper is optional - you can just rotate the rod blank by hand when applying the wraps. What I've cobbled together is like a rod wrapper, but with only a very light duty drive between motor and rod blank (think strip of masking tape). It's job is to keep the rod constantly rotating as the epoxy dries, so you can build up a good layer of epoxy over the wraps without slumping/dripping.

Anyway, I don't really want to derail the original poster's thread with this, I just wanted to point out another cost effective way to get a high quality rod. Perhaps I'll start my own thread in the new year about how it's working out.