How to Carry a Fly Rod (17 of 35)
Video Transcript:
So, what's a good way to carry your rod broken down? Well, if you're going to a really brushy area or if you're in a small car and you need to break your rod down, you don't really wanna unstring the whole thing, you wanna keep it ready to go. There's a really cool way of doing it. You start by finding your middle feral, break the rod down, you put your fly in the first guide at the tip section, and then you pull all the line till it's relatively tight. And then you rail in most of that extra line that you've got there, and you take your fly line and you run it around the back of your reel. And now you've got a loose piece of line outside the guides. And you just take this line and you wrap it two or three times around that stripping guide, and then you've got it. Reel it up a little bit maybe. Now you've got it. The rod's not gonna come apart. You can go through the woods with it. It's not gonna get tangled with other rods if you have two or three rods in a car. It's gonna stay together and it's very easy to just reverse the process to get fishing again.
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