John Loebach

About 75% of the time with glass. From 4 to 10wt. some older rods are more work but the right lenght & line make a big difference. Some favorites

Phiilipson 7' 6" wt,

Fisher 8'  6wt. S glass

Lamiglas 8'  6wt.

Orvis superfine (recent) 6 & 8wt.

I could go on but you should know I also like early graphite thats moderate in action

Sage RPL 7wt.

Scott Heliply 7wt.

Come to the Cast & compare in September, I'll have more than a few to try. Or maybe we get together closed to you sometime for a casting day.

John

We will plant this next Saturday in Batavia downtown. Meet at parking lot on Rte. 25 by the skate park south of Wilson. Planting 400+ we should do well with 10 or 12 volunteers. Bring waders & gloves the rock bar upstream of the large island is 30' or so from the end of the park. We should finish by 11 am & go get some lunch. Please post or contact me if you are coming. Its been a couple years since we have planted the Fox & I'm looking forward to it.

John

Saturday, April 30, 2022
VFW Post 2801, 39 E. St. Charles Road, Villa Park, IL 60181
Registration/Preview at 9:00 am - Auction Starts at 10:00 am
New and used Fly Fishing gear & discounts available for bidding
include fishing outings, rods, reels, lines, flies, waders, boots, bags,
books, DVD’s, fly tying materials, vises, tools, and more.
Please Note: A face mask is required for this event.
Visit our Facebook page for more Information: www.facebook.com/driftorg

Fly fishers note, the 28th annual auction fundraiser is this Saturday. Many good rods to go to the high bidder. non- members welcome.

John Loebach

Auction Chairman 

I want to invite you for a grilled dinner & backyard campfire this Saturday 10/23 arrive 4 to 5pm. Outside event bring a mask if you want. Burgers & brats & a chance to swap stories. Please RSVP so I can have enough to eat.

John Loebach

348 West Windsor Ave. 

Lombard, Il. 60148

C# 630/251-5904

Email j.loebach@comcast.net

Cane Cast & Compare

Saturday 10/9/21 8AM to 12 PM

Glenwood Forest Preserve

1644 River St., Batavia, Il. 60510

Come join us  as Jeff Fox , Illinois Bamboo Rod Builders hosts area bamboo builders & collectors for a day of testing, comparing & learning about bamboo fly rods. Come out & bring your bamboo to share. Other rods OK, I always have a couple glass rods to compare.

Masks & social distancing requested. All outside event - hope to see you there.

I wear cotton brown gloves. I'll have nytril gloves if you want to try to keep dry wear them under cotton gloves. Or wear none I plant & garden without all the time. 

Come help on Saturday 9/25/21  Start time 9am as we plant 600 plants on the west branch Dupage at Warrenville. Bring gloves & waders. We are working with Jesse Demartini FPDDC & head of the Urban stream research center at Blackwell. 

Plants are native streamside including:

Rose mallow, lizard tail, water willow, sweet flag& blue flag iris. 

Lunch afterwards at the Town Tap.

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John. The map on the link is Warrenville.  Everyone can park along Second St. (2^nd St.) which is  east of the river and next to the Warrenville Museum and Historical WarrenTavern.  We will be planting  along  the east and west sides of the river upstream of the Warrenville bridge and also downstream of the bridge in various areas. Ill meet you there ( by the museum building) around 8:45am and we can transfer the plants  and other items  (water, gloves, etc.)into my truck.  I will then drive the truck along the trail closer to the river with the  equipment ( dibble bars, etc. ) and plants.  When done, maybe we can have a bite to eat at the Town Tap...  Jess

 Post or pm me if you can help. We will have lunch afterwards. This should be an easy one, cool temps & low water levels. Bring waders & gloves.

Successful outing with about 25 casting one or two handed rods. A big thank you to Jeremy from Dupage Flyfishing & Doug Taylor Sage Elite pro staff. Its been a year of delayed events so maybe we are taking a step forward. Most stayed through the morning for lunch. It felt normal! Next up is a planting on the Dupe on 9/25.

Timothy take a ride up, see if someone else wants to come with you. It's been a long time since I've visited you central guys to fish or tie. Water is low but its been cool at night for about a week. Fish should be active. For lunch we have some pulled pork BBQ from the Swine cellar. Member Steve Spiz is a cook there, good stuff. Just 4 days from now.

Thats 6 days from now.  Good to start some outside events again.

Doug Taylor is running this event which teaches 2 handed spey casting. This year its expanding to include single hand fly casting, tying & more. 

Speyfest 10/22/21

Hemming Park

Newago,Mi.

We're planning on pulled pork BBQ from Spiz's new job at the Swine Cellar in Naperville. Added raffle of some gear to go with the rod membership promotion, too.

No answer yet on planting this summer. 

Rio I think makes short sinking leader sections . Loop to loop on your floating line,  add 2' of tippet & you're done. the good thing is you can switch back to a regular leader easily. I tend to fish sinking line in still water. Tim's right about intermediate for flowing water.

Kevin, pm me or call I'll put together a few flies for the friar.

 Thanks Terry. I'll send some out . I can get a couple dozen that are already tied.

John

Happy & healthy thanksgiving to all. Warmish tomorrow anyone fishing BronzeFriday?

Yes shallow small creeks empty out of large fish as it cools. longer smaller rivers like the Dupe or vermillion will have most fish in a few deep slow pools. remember that crap plants release warmer water & that can hold fish in an area. 

A cool & at times wet morning. Seven enjoyed the time casting, twice that many  custom bamboo rods in the rack. We had three deer graze the lawn for awhile across from the pavilion & pass back through later. Thanks to Jeff Fox for organizing & Bruce Olson for help setting up. Gordon Koppin brought out his tri-hex 6 weight rod a rare build with great action. This is likely the last activity for some time as the Early show is cancelled until a less covid time.

Cane Cast & Compare 10/17/2020 8am – noon

Glenwood Forest preserve

1644 S. River St.

Batavia, Il. 60510

Come join us at Glenwood Forest Preserve on Sunday 4/28 as Jeff Fox , Illinois Bamboo Rod Builders hosts area bamboo builders & collectors for a day of testing, comparing & learning about bamboo fly rods. Come out & bring your bamboo to share. Other rods OK, I always have a couple glass rods to compare. This is a make up of the missed May 2020 event. Masks & social distancing requested. All outside event - hope to see you there.

John L

To those of you who came to the September cast and compare on the fox river at Glenwood Park know what a success it was. So I decided to try the cane rod makers outing on Saturday morning October 17 - 8:00am until noon. That is Glenwood Park mile and a half south of the town of Batavia on route 25. Masks, gloves, and any other safety attire you would like as welcome. 

No Early show this year. Mayslake posted no outside rentals for 2020 back in May. I may make up the Cane Cast & Compare on 10/17 if Glenwood is open.

Good turnout - 21 signed in plus a few more. Rain wasn't too bad & it stopped by 10:30. Both shops brought some great new gear and Doug Taylor helped with spey casting lessons. It was good to see some familiar faces but there were 7 who were first time at the event.  Thank you to all who came and to Jeremy & Zach from Dupage Fly & Ike from Orvis.

Bring a folding chair, it makes it easier to stay safe. Picnic tables don't work  well to maintain 6" distance.