Another view of Jim's Rod

This is a little 7'6" 3 wt Sage I made for a fishing buddy. He wanted something different and I decided to inlay a mayfly from the Lower Owens in Bishop CA. He likes to fish the Lower Owens so I decided to use a fly from that area. I kept the feather work plain and simple to reflect his principles. I used a simple Pheasant feather base with a Peacock Pheasant on top of that and limited the bright feathers It is crested in both the Argus and Bustard feathers with a little Eurasian Jay on the side with a white Biot feather inlayed under a Jungle Cock. The rod has Purple Heart and Ebony wood on the handle with a little buffalo horn. Reel seat is Purple Heart which he likes. It is wrapped in hand twisted silk made by me. It is a green and gray single strand silk I made myself by twisting together the two strands and wrapping the blank. Very time consuming to make the strands, but a nice effect.