Popped out after work for some relaxation from the daily grind
Rewarded with a couple fishies
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A nice little egg wagon too
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That must have been fun playing with those! I got up at 7:30 this morning so I'd have lots of time to do my Friday run to town and be back in time to get loaded up to do a little trout fishing and be on the water by 6pm. Just had to run into a half dozen people I haven't seen in a while and they all love to gab then on the way home I saw that they have cropped the hemp field so I stopped to see what might be left for gleaning. Shit tons of hemp bud just laying there for the picking so of course I started doing some of that. Saw a tractor working down the rows toward me so talked to Frank and he says they are just interested in the fiber so I'm welcome to grab as much of the tops as I want. Whoo f'n Hoo!
I grabbed a reusable grocery bag out of the car and with my tiny Swiss Army pocket knife ended up with over 1800g of half dry hemp buds which should yield at least 1000g of clean, dry bud that at even 6% CBD by weight will give me a couple oz of pure CBD. I'm going back tomorrow with some good pruners and getting a few bags more at least. He said it's only fair after I told him about how my outdoor grows are kaput as last year's got seeded all to hell thanks to the hemp.
Talk about a good catch!
On the fishing side of things the rod wrapping threads I ordered Monday showed up at the PO today so I can get to work finishing up my fly rod. 18 - 100yd spools and $20 of other bits and pieces with $25 shipping for $156Can. Pro Wrap thread which is used by all the pros since Gudebrod went out of business.
The metallic threads are on the right, nylon on the left and I got 2 of the black metallic as black gets used a lot and I'll be using mostly if not all black and silver for this rod but have other rods needing hook keepers or even total guide swaps in various colours. I'm going to be practising a bit on an old spin rod top section that is black like my blank to see how things look with the ideas I have about how I want to finish this rod. I'm already finding it pretty easy to do nice designs as long as I take it nice and slow for now. I've been downloading u-tube videos that I can play back in slo-mo using VLC media player on the PC and can do decent fade patterns, olive branch and sawblades so far. I don't want wild and crazy wraps but will make this rod very distinctive and feel a little joy/pride every time I take it out and put a fish on the other end. Especially with a fly I tied myself as well. We can all use a little more joy.
If I felt a little richer I would have just ordered 1 or two of everything including silk thread.
I'm already planning to build a 10wt switch rod that can be used one or two handed like a spey rod for when I get out to the coast and target those 30+ lb King/Chinook salmon in the white water rivers I've fished hundreds of times. I also want to build a 2wt rod for the little creeks that are abundant all thru the Fraser Valley but often have small coho salmon runs in them in the fall. Bertrand Creek in Aldergrove runs south into WA and eventually into the Columbia River was just a mile up the road from where I used to live and nailing an 8lb coho in there was a real thrill on grandpa's old 6wt fiberglass fly rod. Mostly trout up to a couple pounds was the average.
I have a half dozen old bamboo fly rods in various condition I'll be looking into making sure they are fishable too. Where does one find horsehair fly lines so a guy can go totally retro fishing one?