A while back one of my fishing buddies Jeff Peace asked me to build him a new rod for a trip that he was taking to Alaska and then a follow-up trip that he and I will be taking to Christmas Island in December. After a bit of talking we settled on a new Sage Xi3 7wt which is a great Saltwater fast action rod. I ordered the rod from Custom Fly Rod Crafters and it came with a sock and a really nice tube. I ordered the components from Utmost which is located in Sequim Washington from Carol who has been a great person to work with when building custom rods. The components are high quality Pacific Bay or Batson Enterprises. Jeff was looking for a fairly simple straight forward rod so I toned down my urge to do tropics flash for this rod although it still has some great features. It has a Batson saltwater reel seat and cork handle kit, chrome eyes and nice brilliant blue highlight banding that blends really nice with the deep sea blue rod and thread wraps. I added my signature feather grouping of jungle cock, grizzly hackle, and a touch of blue dyed Amherst Pheasant. The rod blank provider did the lettering, Peace Rod by HD.
Jeff and I have known each other for a few years now. He and I worked at Boeing together and he was the Program Manager of the 747 Program for a number of years and held several other titles over the years. Jeff and I worked together after we both left Boeing and did a some consulting work focused on the Aerospace Industry. We both have hung that up for now and have been doing some great fishing adventures together and I look forward to fishing with him and watching catch fish with this new beauty.
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| Jeff Peace's new rod custom built by HippieD (HD) me (o: |
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| Batson Saltwater Reel seat and cork kit, finished rod with sock and tube |
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| Grizzly, Amherst Pheasant, Jungle Cock Combination... |
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