For someone's trophy room

[Ontario Hunter]

Just finished this. Our bishop is asking us to donate stuff for a silent auction at synod dinner in two weeks. $17 for junker rod & reel at 2nd hand store, twenty bucks for donor lamp on sale at Walmart, $11 for the pull chain fob fishing lure, $14 for Walmart lamp shade; $15 for "hunter green" spray paint. All tax deductible of course.

Originally I tried a green donor spinning rod but it was larger with longer handle. Made the lamp too tall. I didn't want a spinning reel because they stick out too far. Casting rods typically have bent handles and don't work but casting reels are tighter to the rod. So I used a kid's straight handle spinning rod missing half its guides and an old seized up Johnson closed face reel. This should make a nice addition to someone's fishing cottage.

 

[RR 314]

That is really cool. Have seen a bunch of them in the same lodge with old school Abu Garcia’s. Good work.

 

[DieJager]

Cool idea and well executed.

 

[Jared640]

That's cool!

 

[Raven]

It's interesting.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

Green base might have worked with green rod but not when I switched to brown rod. So I painted the base brown. All wired up and ready to auction.

 

[wesheltonj]

Excellent work

 

[skydiver386]

The lure on the pull chain kicks it off nicely.