Serin Midge
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 11:17 am
Does anyone know anything of the maker of this rod? It is a Serin Midge a small light fly rod. The label says "maker SERIN Red Bluff Ca." and written around the rod is "7 3/4 Midge".
This puzzles me as it is not, and never was 7 foot, nor is it a 3/4 weight, it works much better with a #5 line, but at close range. I wonder if it meant 73 inches as that is its length ( or was before a bloody great rainbow dashed from under a bush, crashed on to my fly and snapped the rod at the ferrule on the tip section, it repaired well but is now 1" shorter ).
It is a pleasant short twig to Fish with on tiny streams and under and around trees.
This puzzles me as it is not, and never was 7 foot, nor is it a 3/4 weight, it works much better with a #5 line, but at close range. I wonder if it meant 73 inches as that is its length ( or was before a bloody great rainbow dashed from under a bush, crashed on to my fly and snapped the rod at the ferrule on the tip section, it repaired well but is now 1" shorter ).
It is a pleasant short twig to Fish with on tiny streams and under and around trees.