Calviello Rods

3 NEW destinations for the 2010 / 2011 season

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:01:00 +0000

Please take a look. These are my selected places for this year

For more information please contact me at bambooweeks@calviellorods.com

Bamboo Week JOIN US!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:39:00 +0000

Please take a look here

The best fishing video I saw in years

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:44:00 +0000

Dry Fly Heaven from Joel Whalen on Vimeo.

Happy New Year!!! to all

Merry Christmas to all the Bamboo Community

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:52:00 +0000

From Argentina
Marcelo

Let me introduce two Little Ladies

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:44:00 +0000

CF563SS 5'6" #3 2/1 The Short Series

Burning blood...

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:09:00 +0000

We have to wait 2 complete months to our opening season here in Argentina. I'd receive a video yesterday that immediately put my blood burning. Please take a look.

Flying all over the world

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:18:00 +0000

I received today a story from my Singapore friend Kuan Chee Yung (Arthur). The story praise about one of my oldest rods a CF704 7' #4 made many year ago and with a very good tale of fishing different places and different fishes.
Here´s is from my friend's words.

"Of late, I've been fishing very light & short rods as my casting has improved, I fish bushy country, and the spooky fish prefer very small flies. Estuary fishing has been bad due to weather and land reclamation destroying my beloved mangroves. As such, all the Jaguar Flamed canons have not been fished often.... but here is an interesting story.....

I was about to order a new light weight Calviello from you when forummer Erik Osterby put his 7' 4wt Calviello for sale. I jumped on it and now it is with me. As you know, this rod has experienced a long and interesting journey around the world.. First sent to David Edel (Denver), then consigned to Ron Shanaver (Wisconsin) who mistakenly shipped it to Erik in Hawaii. Erik kept the rod as it was really nice but subsequently loaned it to Len Safhay (Cloozoe), as it reminded Erik of Cloozoe's Heddon, and who subsequently fished it hard and broke a tip. You kindly made a new tip that was sent to Banjo with his Guru rod, where Peter Van Schaack picked it up in Maine during Superboo to deliver to Streamer but couldn't meet him, he then tried to delivered to Marty DeSapio (Horsesho)in Roscoe's Catskill Gathering but Marty did not turn up. It was finally delivered to Cloozoe in Somerset and now Cloozoe has sent it to me after braving the Draconian Customs!! The replacement tip lost it's ferrule plug somewhere between Cloozoe and Argentina but I fished the rod with new tip and caught a nice peacock bass on it's maiden Singapore trip (picture attached). I fished the rod in the toughest spot where I had to throw 4wt line 40 plus ft with tall bracken bushes and short trees all around and just a small casting space between 3ft and 7ft and a backcast space of 25ft. I hung up a few times at first but had perfect control after 5 casts and hooked this nice 3lb fish. Another larger fish tried to bite it while I was fighting it... see the bruises. It was returned with fight still in him.

Hope you like the picture and thanks for the rod you made that finally became mine.... and for the many famous friends it made on it's long journey to me."

I really love this stories about fishing... Thank you very much my friend!!!

The old fish

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:25:00 +0000

I found a picture today and a wonderful story comes to mind. These are the great things about fishing pictures... they are as a computer that bring past to present and you can live and feel some special catch to live.
It was a cold day of March, some 15 years from now. I remember that was not a typical day, no wind... that in Patagonia is incredible, specially at the Chimehuin Boca. It was my last day of the fishing season and my last five hours at the river, so I decide to do my fishing taking the time for everything. First some "mates" to bring some relax and to heat my body a little.
While I was heating the water to prepare my mates a little breeze start to flow, It was strange I thought, it was a "Puelche"... Puelche is a strange kind of wind that flows only 1 or 2 times in the year. People say that when the Puelche flow, all the fish return to the lake, so they were not the best wishes for my last attempt.
I take a walk near the coast with my mate looking for some movement before I decide what rod to choose and what kind of line and fly to make my try. As they were not the best conditions to fish I decide to take a rod and a line that I really enjoy to fish.
I prepare my Orvis Joe Brooks Favorite with a Perfect reel and an SA Aircell Supreme WF6F.
This outfit cast like a dream and I was sure that I will enjoy every minute at the river. Many cars arrive to the river and when they saw the Puelche, immediately fled the place.
I decide to start fishing and enjoy my last time at the river. I start up where the lake flow into the river (volcadero), the wind help me a lot because maintain my line at the right and I don´t have to worry about the big fly that pass near my ears. I made my classic tour from up to down river and stop at the bridge about 800 meters.
When the light start to gone I was approaching to my preferred place at the Boca... "the curve".
At my second cast I detected some move under my fly. I remember that I thought "stay calm, that was a fish". I went some foot's back at the time I take a look to my leader and my fly. It was a big Honey Blonde one of my preferred for that place...
I made a false cast and a big double haul to help my fly to cross all the river some 15 meters up the fish and start to mend my line. With all my muscles tense I start to work my fly with little but fast hauls... 1 meter, 2... 3... a great V and a great take!!! My Perfect start to sing, my rod draw a circle to the water and at the other side perhaps 50 meters up river a big brown start to jump like crazy. It was a real big fish and I must to admit that I was not with my best rod selection to fight this monster, so I thought "I have to be careful, very careful with this one, perhaps my last fish of the season.
The night catch me fighting my fish, and also found him trying to win the battle at every jump. I don´t remember a fish that jumps like this one. A great fish, a great day, a great catch to demystified what everybody think about Puelche.
This was another great day, and another great memory.

All this memories, keep full my background about bamboo rods and help me to understand what I like to found at any of my rods. Here in Argentina you can always fish some little rods, but always you need to be ready to take all of them because you can find a surprise at every part of any river.

Calviello Introductory Series

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:57:00 +0000

To celebrate the launch of the new Calviello Rods Co. I designed the NEW Introductory Series. This rods were designed for fishing and thinking also in an accessible price to let all know about the BOBFS benefits. Don´t miss the chance, all great fishing and casting rods at a very special offer.
Please for pricing take a look at the CATABLOG

CB704IS 7´ #4 2/1 Blonde rod with Jasper Brown Gossamer silk wraps.

CF765IS 7' 6" #5 2/1 Medium Flamed rod with Classic >>Chessnut Gossamer wraps.

CF625IS 6' 2" #5 2/1 Medium Flamed rods. Clear Gossamer wraps with black medium tips.

Thank you

The crisis is here... and now what?

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:55:00 +0000

They are trying to sell this new crisis to us as if it were the last, the world finish... All the civilization all around the world are bombed by the news in all kind of media, speaking about default, bonds and equities, banks, salvation plans, money...money... money.

I know that this chaotic situation is new for many of you, but I can tell you by experience that as my grandmother always said "whenever it rained stopped". The world along the years passed by very strong and difficult times and we are here.

The big threat here is to fall into the mouth of this campaign. I will not ignore that all of us have problems and we must be prepared but for sure I will not live every minute of my time and my family time pending for a crisis that I don´t made and that I can´t solve.

Time is our best value and one of the things that we cannot buy with money...

Moments like this one, generates great opportunities fundamentally to enjoy life, to enjoy more time with family, to take your son fishing, to enjoy your tackle treasures...

I remember when I was a marketing man, running my own company... I was the owner of one of the biggest bamboo collection in the country but without time to fish them... Them the crisis of 2000 in Argentina came and I decided to change my life completely.

More time at home, more time with my wife, more time to my children... I got the possibility of see them grow daily. I got time to use my rods, time to read books, time to tie my flies, time to think about rods and time to made them.

So when I think about the loss in the mouth of that crisis, I always thought "Thanks God to show me the real way to enjoy and live my life".

Don´t live pending of the news.

Try to spend lots of time with family.

Enjoy your life

Enjoy nature

Go fishing!!!

Just a thought

Very interesting article, and an honour for me

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:04:00 +0000

As you know the world is crossing into a big economical crisis. The media is always talking about it and what they got... crisis goes deeper and deeper. Some days ago I received an article about investments that I like to share with all of you. It was written by an authority in sporting collectables Mr. Len Codella, sure you know about him, and is a big help when we start thinking about new investments at a crisis time. Here´s the article:

AN OPINION

INVESTING ?? – STOCK MARKET VS. GUNS, FISHING TACKLE ??

Well, that tears it! After losing substantial REAL money in the market over the past several months and watching my investments and my retirement savings go up in a ball of fire (without so much as the benefit of the warmth of the flames), I felt it was time to share some observations about investing in things OTHER THAN worthless paper. At the urgings of friends, associates and suppliers, I am inclined to set down a few findings I've made over the many years spent in this business. All to do with the investment side of things, so here goes:

1. I have never lost a nickel on good guns, good reels and good rods.

2. I have lost thousands on "good" stocks in declining markets.

3. High quality sporting items, in exceptional condition, always seem to appreciate in value.

4. Stocks, bonds and mutuals can quickly turn into bad toilet paper faster than you can CYA.

5. There are no real "Shooting Stars" in the sporting collectibles field, only some modest, but sure investment potentials and safe returns.

6. Fondling stock certificates ages a person.

7. Cranking a reel handle or oiling a gun keeps one young.

8. Surrounding oneself with the trappings of the Outdoors is very comforting. Almost as fulfilling as being a successful father (mother), husband (wife) friend, business person, etc. (you get the idea – fill in your own blank).

9. Finding out over time that those trappings are worth more than you paid for them is the icing on the cake.

10. Sporting equipment is not very liquid but then, liquidity is not all it is cracked up to be – especially if losses are the result of quick and easy turn-over.

11. Invest in the very best condition factor you can afford. It will always pay you back.

12. Care for your investments. Clean them. Polish them. Do not let them deteriorate over time and they will reward you even more handsomely.

13. Fine gear does not require feeding or other expensive support over time. It just sits there and appreciates as you enjoy owning and using it.

14. There is almost an illegitimate satisfaction in buying a new rod or reel, fishing with it using care for ten years and then learning that it is worth half again (or more) than the amount you originally paid for it.

15. Fine guns and fine bamboo fly rods, unlike fine wine, do not turn to vinegar over time.

16. Having a stranger admire your tackle on the stream can really make you feel good.

17. Letting them try it out makes you feel even better.

There are more bon mots, but the point of all of this is that there is more to investing in fine gear than just the money, BUT, and that is a big but, it is certainly nice to know that the money is safe, secure and not subject to the whims of super greedy people.

The pleasure of ownership of collectibles far outweighs the modest, but sure, returns they provide. There is comfort in knowing you money is safe no matter how attractive the high return that can be "earned" on a hot investment may be.

COMMON SENSE INVESTING.

18. Always buy quality. Not only will it last, it will always pay you back.

19. On anything that may be a pure collectible; something to be put back and preserved, always remember the old real estate adage of "Location, Location Location". In collectible guns and tackle it is "Condition, Condition, Condition".

20. Try to focus on goods that have achieved a reputation for absolute quality. Products that are widely respected are that way for good reason. "Almost as good" is never good enough.

21. Whenever possible, buy new. It is easier to maintain top condition for posterity, when you start out that way.

22. Seek advice when you are unsure. A reputable dealer or manufacturer will never knowingly give you bad advice. He is reputable because he's earned the loyalty of repeat customers and will always try to insure that they continue to return.

SPECIFIC THINGS TO INVEST IN

The following is a list of guns, rods and reels to be on the lookout for:

23. Payne, Leonard, Gillum, Garrison, Edwards, Granger, Thomas, T&T, Winston, Orvis, Powell, Summers, Young, Jennings, Jenkins, Moran, Lacey, Carpenter, Thramer, Lancaster, Simroe, Nigro, Ciemiega, Taransky, Eden Cane, Scott SC, Schroeder, R.D.Taylor, Calviello, Dickerson Rods.

24. Godfrey, Peerless, Saracione, Hardy, Pate, Tibor, Fin-Nor, Abel, Hermann, Bogdan, Seamaster Reels.

25. Browning, Winchester, Remington, Fox, L.C Smith, Parker, Holland & Holland, Boss, Purdy, Beretta, Famars, Arrietta, Guerini, Fabbri, Grulla, Merkel, Perazzi Guns

It's not bad for his first day!

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:43:00 +0000

Sebastián my big son fly the day before yesterday to his first trip to Patagonia. He sent me this picture... his first fish on his first day of the trip.

Place: Malleo River, at the public waters zone.
Fly: Sauce worm # 14
Rod: Calviello CF704SSS 7´ #4 2/2 Swelled Sealed Series.
Reel: Hardy Sirrus

More pictures

Malleo rainbow

Chimehuin brown with the CB765 7' 6" 2/2 #5 that I made for my son about 10 years ago.

CF704SSS in action

The result, 28" brown at the Malleo River

Another Malleo rainbow

Dreaming stage

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:12:00 +0000

Everytime I start a new bunch of rods many things flows arround my mind. In the first part of this work, I select each cane trying to listen what each piece of cane is trying to say. This part of the work, when you split the cane and them work over the nodes is very special because if you pay attention you can find a special taper for each pole.

Them the dreaming start, who will be the owner of this new rod?, where it will go? what rivers, streams will be waiting for it?... no better I will keep this one for my personal use, no again... I own many rods and I must sell these ones I can keep every new rod I made. Any rod is a particular dream and really a little part of these dreams goes with each cane that leave the shop. I know that someday I'll receive a story about the rod, fishing in some water around the world and it will refresh my memories returning my mind into his making process.

At this time five new rods are waiting for the second stage of the making, and I can assure you that I perfectly know what I can spect from each one. Each have it's personality and each his power, my work is try to show all it's potential and bring it alive. When they got finished they will be ready to make their work, fishing of course, any rod that leave the shop was made looking and thinking in this purpose.

Three new rods

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:29:00 +0000

I was working hard for the last month finishing three new rods and making some new rodmaking work into the shop. This are 3 very different rods a 7', a 7' 6" and an 8'

CF704 Classic Browntone 7' #4 2/2
This is a very special little monster. I used my Gurú taper to make it and is fully flamed

CFH805+JF 8' #5+ 2/2 Hollow Build Jaguar Flamed Series
With a lot of backbone this rod can cast the line like a cannon.

CB764 7' 6" #4 2/2 Traditional Blondes Series
This is a very delicate rod, it cast like a lady but with full authority.

Just to share with all of you my last work.

Report from the 2008 CRG Catskill Rodmakers Gathering

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:47:00 +0000

As I told you many times I'm always looking for an opportunity to get my rods tested by fly fishermans and bamboo lovers. Living so far here in Argentina don't make it easy for me.
Always I found a friend that helps me in this venture. Again this year with the invalorable help of Peter (Pvanch) from The Classic Fly Rod Forum, my dear friend Banjo and David Margolis, 2 of my rods got the privilege of being in hands of many friends casting some line out.

This is Pete's report:

"I met up with David Margolis; he picked the rods up from Sante and brought them to CRG. Saturday it poured so they stayed in the tubes, no one was out casting rods much anyway.
Sunday morning brought sunshine and rods to the rack to be cast, I strung up the "Forum Rod" with a Cortland 444 peach WF5 that is on my old Pflueger 1494 reel and it balanced out nicely and cast beautifully. Many cast the rod and enjoyed seeing one in person.

The Classic Fly Rod Forum Rod

I strung up the Guru rod with an older Cortland 333 DT4 line that seemed to be the best match I had for it. The reel was a Scientific Angler System 1 456, pretty good balance. This rods was well received and casting a pleasure as it was fairly windy.

The Gurú Rod (owned by Banjo)

I only wish I had a decent camera, because of the language between me not knowing Japanese and Yukihiro not knowing much English, the smile on his face told the story of how he liked the rod (ear to ear grin). Yukihiro builds rods in Japan using Madake Bamboo so he was fascinated seeing another rod not made from Tonkin Bamboo.

Finally having a chance to play with the rods a bit more, today I’m meeting up with Jeff (catch22) to fish as neither of have been out lately. He will get the opportunity to cast both rods. He may have at Super Boo last year, but is anxious to cast them again. I line the “Guru Rod” with my Thebault silk DT 4 line and man was that a perfect combination, straight line casts both long and short; I’ll let Jeff try that combination today.
The Forum rod, like Sante said will cast just about any line you put on it, I have a stiff old unknown line that came a used reel I purchased, the spool has DT5 written on it so I’m assuming that’s what it is, and it casts that line very nicely as well. I have a few more people interested in casting and checking out the rods before I bring them back to Sante.

As usual the rods are beautiful pieces of work and working tools for catching fish."

Peter

Again Peter, my friend I don't have the words to thank you.

Marcelo

BiPower Brooks monsters

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:22:00 +0000

I always read that the world record of Brook Trout will be fished at Labrador or at some place in Argentina... Now I don't have any doubt about it. Today I received an email from my friend Blake Prescott with a great review of his last trip to Labrador for Brook fishing. The best for me is that he was using one of my CFH806BP 8' #6 Hollow Build BiPower Series

And this is what he have to say:

"Dear Marcelo,
With apologies for the poor photography, I'm sending you evidence of your rod's performance. We just returned from Labrador which sits to the east of Quebec in Canada, and, while part of Newfoundland, reaches to the far north above that island. It is sparsely populated. Our Inuit (sort of an Eskimo) guide came from a town of only 50 where the only mode of travel was by outboard motor boat.
The fishing was for brook trout. The attraction of this particular area (the Minipi Lake system) is that the trout feed almost exclusively on insects but they have such an abundance of these insects that the trout grow to exceptionally large size. They are not easy. We went 2 and 1/2 days without a rise, and when you do get a rise, it may be your only chance so you have to be ready with a rod which has a tip that won't yank the fly from the fish while still responding precisely in setting the hook. One experienced fisherman caught only one fish in a week.

To further complicate matters, the winds are notoriously strong. Indeed, at the camps on the larger lake, it is not unusual for fishermen who have only one week of fishing to give up a couple of those days due to the wind being too strong for the boats to go out. Obviously, the casting can be extremely difficult under these circumstances. We were at Little Minipi which is not so little. It has miles and miles of convoluted shoreline, and it has a river that, even though small (about two casts wide in most places), has very large trout. There was a difficult 1/2 hour ride through white caps to get to the area where your rod got its special testing. Winds were blowing upstream, blasting us in the face and causing us to lean into them just to keep our balance. We were using dry flies almost exclusively, and I had an 18 foot leader on; so the rod had to have tapers and power to hold a fly in the wind and set in down without a bunch of curls. Your rod did just that. I used a 6 wt floating line, a Wulff Triangle Taper; this is similar to a double taper and gives a delicate presentation but needs a rod to combine precision and power to punch it out any distance. Your bi-power rod did the trick. Now most folks were using 7, 8, and 9 weight rods to fight these winds, and - to play the large, very hard fighting fish for a short time in order to get them back into the water as soon as possible. They are very serious about conserving this wonderful stock of large brook trout; so when one is landed, it is quickly weighed, revived, and released. This is my excuse for the photos. There was little time, and my ability to get shots that did justice to the fish and rod was limited. Fortunately, I had a waterproof casing for my camera which allowed me to even take it out under those conditions.
As you know, brook trout are in a different family than brown trout, rainbow trout, and salmon. I don't know how well acquainted the people in Argentina are with this kind of trout; and even those brook trout that they are familiar with may be quite different than those in Labrador. Indeed, the brook trout in different parts of Labrador have their own special characteristicsl. Those that we caught on this trip were not only larger than our past Labrador trip for brook trout, but they fought much harder. Some would run into the backing, and they all showed tremendous strength, snapping leaders and even breaking stout hooks. While these char with tiny scales and beautiful colors usually don't develop their startling reds and blues until the fall (at our spawning time), these in the Minipi system are different in that they get their colors early, and develop a big hump just before the dorsal fin at spawning time. The record brook trout did come from eastern Canada many years ago, but, now, bragging rights can go with any brook trout over two pounds. A brook trout over ten pounds is practically unheard of, and any exceeding 5 pounds are few and far between. Well, they keep a log at Little Minipi, where they limit the entries to those over three pounds. There were only 4 pages to the log for last year. Many experienced fishermen feel fortunate if they get into the log; and those with more than three or four fish are infrequent. Trust me, there were very few trout logged in over 5 pounds last year, and only a handful of those over 7 pounds.
OK. That's the background that you can pass on to others. Now for the action.
I'll confine the story to one catch.

The trout pictured with your rod weighed 7 and 1/4 pounds. He rose just once, in heavy winds, and he took a dry fly (a "Goddard Caddis" that you may see). Rapid setting of the hook was necessary, and there were about 70 ft of line (and leader) out. Not only did your rod perform the casting necessities well in these windy, adverse conditions, but responded ideally to the hook setting. We brought him up to us a couple of times before he sent the reel screaming again and put the bipower in "U" formation, going well into backing. Steering him with the rod was also a pleasure, The bamboo ferrule gave precise control from butt to tip, and we were able to keep him away from a series of hazards before he went into his dogged fight where he showed off his strength. Had we tried to bring him in more quickly, we surely would have lost him. Finally, he yielded enough to be netted, but the fight had been long enough where we wanted to revive and release him as soon as possible. Thus the excuse for the poor photos. I caught 8 fish over 3 pounds during the week (including four between 6 and 8 pounds) and this one fought the best. The guides not only admired the fine craftmanship and artwork in your rod, but also, and especially, the way it performed."

Thank you, Marcello.

Best regards from Vermont, USA, your friend and admirer,
Blake

Thank you very much Blake, reviews like this one always draw a big smile into my face.

Paul Hermann's post at The Classic Fly Rod Forum

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:30:00 +0000

When I looked down at the shattered rod in my hands my heart sank...I had just destroyed such a thing of beauty. It took me several days after I got home to get up the courage to email and tell Marcelo the tale.... The Golden Salmon was like no other cane rod I had ever had in my hands. It cast like no other. A good fishing friend who lawn cast it just a few weeks before was amazed by the way it cast and plans to contact Marcelo for a rod built with the same taper...This same friend has only used Young para's for salmon for years..I watched him break one just as mine did a few inches above the cork and just at the end of a long battle down threw 1/2 mile of rapids with a 36 pound bright salmon on the Cascepedia 10 years ago...I remember how his emotions were mixed...elation for his biggest fish he ever had on,, mixed with terrible saddness over the what happened to the rod....But he said then,,and still feels the same,,,that the makers of these wonderful masterpieces created them to use...not sit in a display rack.....I know I have always felt the same about my reels...they deserve to be used..That's why I made them......the dings and dents can always be be fixed or rebuilt...I have been blessed to catch many large salmon in my fishing life....The Golden Salmon withstood a lot of pressure ....as anyone on this board who has caught a few bright salmon over 25 pounds in a big high water spring river will surely know....Why the rod chose to break at the end I don't know...perhaps just a bit too much pressure,,.... there comes a time in a fight with this size fish that it needs to be landed or lost ....My hope is that Marcelo will forgive what I did to his masteriece and rebuild this wonderful rod for me.........rm

Again, thank you very much my friend.

Sometimes something must be sacrificed to win a battle

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:06:00 +0000

This story really shock's me... with a mix of proudness and deception.
Some months ago my dear friend Paul Hermann, maker of one of the best and beautiful reels in the world, ask me to make a special rod for Atlantic Salmon fishing.
This was a real challenge because this was my first rod with so special purpose... fight with the king of the rivers!. The Atlantic Salmon. I designed a special taper using some of my experience I got, fighting and fishing another king of the rivers... our "Fresh water Dorado".
Because of that and trying to honor this spectacular fish I called it, the Golden Salmon.
It is a 8' 6" hollow build rod for a #7 line. A light Salmon rod, that cast wonderful, I love it and also Paul love it so I feel very happy with the new taper and the new rod..
A week ago my dear friend send me an email with a mixing of good news and bad news and you will understand why...

The following are some pictures that Paul send me and part of the story on his own words.

Marcelo...I am feeling very very bad...I broke the Golden salmon at the very end of a long battle with an almost 30 pound bright ,fresh from the ocean, very, very strong salmon. "Opening morning I drew a very good pool and on our fifth boat drop threw the pool I hooked this monster...The Golden salmon was casting perfectly...I love how it casts...fits my style to a tee.....I had a light tippet on so I knew I would have to play any fish carefully....the fish came to the fly and didn't take...left just a huge swirl...I rested it a minute and cast again...huge hit and pull...played the fish for about 45 minutes..it made 5 long runs well into the backing...one of which had us taking the canoe down threw a set of rapids to follow the fish......my guide Kevin moved the 26 foot Gaspe canoe to shore twice to play the fish from more slack water...The Matapedia is a big river with heavy water with the spring runoff early in
June....Kevin had the net ready as I turned the head of this strong fish into the net...I heard a cracking sound and looked down to see the the rod literally explode just above the cork handle and inbetween the intermediate wraps...it looked as if the strips all came apart at once...I grabbed the upper section of rod and tried to play the fish ..but it must have been weakened by the fight as well....in desperation I grabbed the line and turned the head of the fish into the net...if the rod had broken even 5 minutes earlier in the fight it would have been lost....

"I usually don't kill salmon anymore...I did plenty of that in my younger days,,,but this was a special fish....my first salmon on the Golden salmon and the first salmon of the year at Cold Springs Camp....a feast was prepared the next noon of fresh fiddleheads and salmon for the whole staff and all the fishermen....the story of this fish was told and will be remembered for years to come....my only hope is that you will be able to rebuild this wonderful rod for me....of all the fish I have ever caught,,I will remember this one forever..."

Thank you Paul... thank you for this great story. That was an incredible fish and an incredible battle, I will also remember it forever!!! We will make it next time, I will work for that...

Flying to Japan

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:54:00 +0000

This is a new one... A CF764 7´6" #4 Traditional Flamed Series 2/2 configuration.

Surprise at the last Lang's Catalog

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:29:00 +0000

Looking at the last Lang's Catalog I found one of my rods into it, a very special rod... Very special because is the one that I made for Mr. Ernest Schwiebert, a CF704 7' #4 2/2
This rod, was made from the same piece of culm that I use to made Mr. Martin J. Keane rod and they are twins in every aspect. The CF704 is a very versatile rod and one of my "best seller" tapers, so if you want to pick a rod with a "little history" into it, here you can get the chance. Here is the praise into Lang's Catalog and a picture that I kept.

163 7' Calviello & Trucco Light Trout Rod. Made for Ernie Schwiebert in 2005, this 2/2 rod appears in new condition. One unique feature is the absence of metal ferrules. Instead, the base of the tips are swelled and hollowed out [like a female ferrule] to accept the butt section. The cane is nicely flamed, the wraps are cinnamon with black tipping, and all sections are full and straight. It has a screw up-locking reel seat with dark wood spacer. This beautiful rod has an agate stripper and is marked: "Specially made for Mr. Ernest Schwiebert".With the bag and labeled tube. ($900-$1,000)

Thank you Arthur

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:20:00 +0000

I really love to see any of my rods being fished!!!

More pictures of the CFH806BPJSE and a little casting video

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:28:00 +0000

Rod, tube and bag ready to go

Some details

and... a little video with some casting atributes.

Calviello CFH806BPJSE

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:44:00 +0000

I like to share my last rod. This one is an 8' #6 3/2 Hollow Build BiPower Jaguar Special Edition Series.

The "spirit" of a bamboo rod

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:28:00 +0000

As I said many times I feel that bamboo rods have life inside. That life is what gives to them its special feeling and keep us taking care of them as very valued properties. What make that feeling so special?... For me the making process is an important issue where we can help to maintain the spirit of material alive. There are three steps that are fundamental for this

1) Selection of cane and taper.
2) Nodes work.
3) Planing

1) Selection of cane and taper
I made my rods one at a time and as you know I'm a "onemanshop" maker, so my production is not more than 40 rods a year. This, allows me to make some own decisions about selection. I look to my poles on stock first and select them looking for the best ones for suitability to special types of taper. This means that if I decide that a pole will be great for a 7' #4 this is what I will do with that pole and nothing else. Spacing nodes, density of powerfibers, color, marks, straight all are the conditions that push me to one side or another on that decision.
I keep my poles marked with a paper sticker with my taper selection for each pole.

2) Nodes work
As I told many times all my making process is done by hand. The nodes work is my preferred step into the making process. I do it one at a time with two different kind of files. Begun the work with the pit protuberance that is cut with the help of a plane and finish with a meticulous work into the nodes. Them the nodes press and alignment process comes.
I work into this with a heat gun and a special vise the Record 51.

3) Planing
I designed a special machine that allows me to make easily the first triangulation by hand without using any mechanical machine. I own a rough machine, but really I hate to see all that pieces of cane flying in the air and also hate the sound of that machine hurting the cane.
I made all this process by hand, this allows me to know about each strip particularities.
I'm not trying to say that this is the best way to do it I 'm only trying to share my experience and my thoughts about how I feel confidence to make it.

I know..., this will take a lot of time, but I'm not a production company and this gave me the time to know about any of my rods. I made 30/40 rods in a year... I also know that I can make 100/120 using machines. I know the difference, I feel the difference, many don't but for me here resides "the spirit of a Bamboo rod".

Pictures of memory

noreply@blogger.com (Marcelo Calviello) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:24:00 +0000

The last day of our recent trip holds one of the best memory pictures that I own into my collection. It was about 7 PM. Sebastian and I had fishing all morning long up waters from the camp. The fish were taken dries during periods and we got very nice fish on small dries, most of them caddies. At mid day we decide to got some meal and to disarm the camp and get all packed into the truck.
We prepare some "mate" and before decide our last fishing we talk about what would be our last place to fish. After a few minutes, with a great storm waiting we walk downwater to take a look to this part of the river that we don't fish before.

With our rain jackets on we cross the river and start our little "scouting" trip. We found a new kind of river there. The coast was high with deep pools at any curve. Using a carefully approach we saw many fish there and 1 or 2 monsters.

Sebas told me, "Dad it's your time" I will point that fish for you from the coast. I tied my fly and carefully jump into the river...
He point some fish that were taken and at a time he said, "Dad, don't move... the fish of the year is right here under me. What is he doing I said. He is eating? he is alone? he is moving? No Sebas said... he is there like a rock, but please be careful because it's really big about 30" or more.
I was using my CF625SSS 6´2" #5 so I was able to cast a big fly and look if the fish attack trying to protect his territory. I tied one of ours "Gaucho tarántula" and put it ten foots up the fish location...

The cast was great and the fly floated death direct into the monster territory. Sebas shout, he is looking , he is moving, oh... he left it!!!. I thought that if the fish made a move he was interested but my fly floated with the current and was not a threat for him.
I decide to make another approach. I cast my fly again, this time about 20 foots up from the fish. The fly floated with the current and when it was near the fish I became to skate it over the surface... Sebas shouts again, "Dad, he is moving, he is going up..." at the same time that he shout "he take it!!!" the water was broken into million of pieces and my rod and I felt the magic moment of fishing, the take!!!

We both were connected for a moment, perhaps two minutes... but was enough to know each other. What a wonderful fish I thought, we two, the fish and I will have a wonderful story to tell and to keep into our memory. I will became a better fisherman and he a better and more difficult fish. This little story don't have a beautiful "photo" as it deserves, the fish gone... And trust me this is one of my best beautiful pictures to keep, because it will be always there present into my mind, closest to my best fishing memories...
For sure you can imagine Sebas words, "Dad, I have done all the work... I pointed a great fish for you, and you let it go... shit!!! Don't worry my big son, I said... I got him, I got him deep into my memories.