Birthday blackfish build

[hammer4reel]

Tracey’s husband bought a Lami 1143 surf rod over 30 years ago .

after he passed away the rod sat idle for many years .

 I told her those blanks were highly sought after , and cut down made great blackfish rods .

She def wanted to  use the rod instead of it collecting dust .

My buddy Jon told me he would build the rod for me .

so I cut off 3 feet off the butt of it , and had him recondition the rod to its new use .

After much though about how we wanted to build it , colors were chosen and it’s been a project for the last month ..

‘Jon did an awesome job on the wraps .

I gave the rod to Tracey  for her birthday.

finally we got a weather window, and got to fish a half day today .

 Made a bunch of drops to find fish that wanted to chew.

was mostly shorts , but Tracey did put. 2 keepers in the box ..

so instead of sitting in the corner the rod will finally get to live again .

crazy how sensitive the original glass blanks were . { new glass rods carrying the same model and specs aren’t even close }

 

 

Edited April 23, 2020 by hammer4reel

[deadonshot2]

Nice. I like that.

[Lunatic]

Very cool. Wind finally stopped today the bay was like a table top.
Happy Birthday !

[rgw]

Awesome

[Buckeyes11]

Looks great. Many blackfish to come on that rod!

[Bojaffa]

Good deal!

[JHbowhunter]

Happy Birthday Tracey!   Nice gift!

[Barney Rubble]

Looks great! I did not know this was possible. Happy B-day and great gift.

[SPEARFISH]

Cool wrap. Couple guys I know caught yesterday.   Way south.

[MikeStaten]

Looks great!   Don’t see too many spiral wrapped like that. 

[hammer4reel]

2 minutes ago, MikeStaten said:

Looks great!   Don’t see too many spiral wrapped like that. 

Just about everything we fish is spiral wrapped  now . Even our fluke stuff 

 

[MikeStaten]

24 minutes ago, hammer4reel said:

Just about everything we fish is spiral wrapped  now . Even our fluke stuff 

 

I used to make my own rods and spiral wrapped many.   Surprised it hasn’t caught on more as I don’t see any negatives with it.   I even made a freshwater bass rod spiral wrapped and it doesn’t give up anything in casting distance either. 

[hiking]

very nice gift.  Happy Birthday Tracey

[Lphunsjr]

Very cool

[archer36]

They claim it's better than graphite in cold weather.