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Nico Vreugdenhil in The Netherlands makes beautiful hand crafted rods, using premium quality fibreglass from established blank manufacturers and also designs his own blanks in a variety of sizes and line weights each carefully designed for a specific purpose.
His own website at Yamameflyrods.com also supplies an excellent and expanding range of high quality fly fishing tackle. He is also the European distributor for a number of prominent blank manufacturers.
Nico has become an important part of the Alternative Tackle Collective and that relationship continues to grow…
Named “The Pure” because it is:
This rod has a medium fast action with a great recovery and is full parabolic, is a bit stiffer in the middle and has a softer tip. Highly accurate with dry fly and nymph. The Pure is brown tobacco e-glass with an orange glow and comes with white spigot ferrules. The blanks are all hand rolled piece by piece in the US.
Currently available in the following models:
These rods are made of black S glass with tip over butt ferrules and are 4 pieces. The blanks are handmade piece by piece in the US. They have a smooth, medium action, with good recovery and a softer and finer tip. The rod is light and casts easily and very accurately at both short and long distance, especially with dry flies and small nymphs. All these characteristics sound a bit “mysterious” therefore I gave the rods got the name “The Black Pearl” like the ship from The Pirates of the Caribbean which is also very mysterious and unbeatable!
Currently available in the following models:
This rod is made in yellow and green E glass with black spigot ferrules and 4 pieces. The rod is light and casts easily, with a medium fast action. It is smooth with excellent recovery and a powerful soft, fine tip. this rod is a shorter version of “The Pride” with the same characteristics
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This rod is the first graphite rod that I have developed. The rod is the ultimate Euro nymph and dry fly rod and is a 4 piece tip over butt ferrule.
This model is available in:
This rod is made in tobacco translucent E glass with tip over butt ferrules and is 4 a piece blank. The Pride is light and cast easy, has a medium fast action and is smooth with a fast recovery and a powerful, softer, fine tip. To get all of these characteristics in one rod made me proud. That’s why I called it ” The Pride “.
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Yamame fly rods are available in a standard range of 6 fly rods built by Nico on blanks of his own design. These are; “The Pure”, “The Black Pearl”, “The Morning Glory”, “The Greedy Soul”, “The Pride”and “The Tiny Devil”. Nico also as produces a number of unique custom built “specials”.
Alternative Tackle will keep a varied stock Nico’s rods, some standard and some specially commissioned “Specials”.
To find out what is currently available, simply get in touch…