Senior Grebe
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2017 12:55 pm
Hello all,
A good few years ago Andrew made me a rod which I’ve never put a thread up on here so thought I would! I gave it a airing last week for pike on my local stretch of the Kennet and thought it about time I done a bit of marketing for Andrew .
At the time I wanted a short pokie whopper-stopper which was light in hand but very capable of stopping the largest of fish (not that I get many) I don’t really go after carp but if I did….I would probably be looking at stalking in close tight swims. But primarily it’s a short rod for either close-quarter work or spinning.
Although we decided on the name “Senior Grebe” i.e. it’s much more powerful than the classic B.James rod, I should have really have gone for name like ‘Bush whacker’ or similar just for mild amusement but went with a fairly boring traditional name.
Andrew based the rod loosely on a salmon rod taper but obviously altered it to suit a shorter rod. The handle is fairly short, length of my forearm which makes it easy to fling around. Nickel-silver ferrule, sliding reel bands rather than the heavier fixed-reel fittings. As the handle is short you tend to have the reel set up the top of the handle most of the time. Whippings were very simple and on this particular rod no intermediates, but green tipped with red whippings.
A very nice short powerful rod. If anyone looking for a new build.....
Sorry meant to add this earlier - 8' 6", 2 piece, all splitcane, handle length is 20" from top of onion to base of button. Quite short. Yes the pike below was last week on deadbait. The other photos from a summer a few years ago spinning.
A good few years ago Andrew made me a rod which I’ve never put a thread up on here so thought I would! I gave it a airing last week for pike on my local stretch of the Kennet and thought it about time I done a bit of marketing for Andrew .
At the time I wanted a short pokie whopper-stopper which was light in hand but very capable of stopping the largest of fish (not that I get many) I don’t really go after carp but if I did….I would probably be looking at stalking in close tight swims. But primarily it’s a short rod for either close-quarter work or spinning.
Although we decided on the name “Senior Grebe” i.e. it’s much more powerful than the classic B.James rod, I should have really have gone for name like ‘Bush whacker’ or similar just for mild amusement but went with a fairly boring traditional name.
Andrew based the rod loosely on a salmon rod taper but obviously altered it to suit a shorter rod. The handle is fairly short, length of my forearm which makes it easy to fling around. Nickel-silver ferrule, sliding reel bands rather than the heavier fixed-reel fittings. As the handle is short you tend to have the reel set up the top of the handle most of the time. Whippings were very simple and on this particular rod no intermediates, but green tipped with red whippings.
A very nice short powerful rod. If anyone looking for a new build.....
Sorry meant to add this earlier - 8' 6", 2 piece, all splitcane, handle length is 20" from top of onion to base of button. Quite short. Yes the pike below was last week on deadbait. The other photos from a summer a few years ago spinning.