We’re proud to share that a pro using our blanks is leading the US Open Bass tournament at Lake Meade.  Bink Desaro is on top of the board with one day left to go. Bink’s weapons of choice are built by Fetha Styx on North Fork blanks.
We’re rooting for you Bink! Good luck tomorrow!
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As I mentioned, G.Loomis sued us again.
Yesterday Gary and I made the journey to the Federal Courthouse in Tacoma. As with most Federal Courthouses, the Tacoma building is a beautiful place. It is the remodeled Union Train Station. It’s full of Dale Chihuly glass. He’s a famous guy with an eye patch. The patch is [...]

Quick note: The latest blanks stats as of May 21, 2010 have been posted on the NFC Available Blank Stats page in the right-hand side-bar. Fly blank stats are not yet included, but can be seen in the previous post.

Pictured below is Brig. Gen. Charles Yeager. I was lucky enough to sit at his table at the Fish First Banquet.

General Yeager is a living American hero.  How often do you get to shake the hand of a man with these decorations?

Distinguished Service Medal (2)
Silver Star (2)
Distinguished Flying Cross (3)
Legion of [...]

We’ve revised our blank statistics page significantly, and now offer a downloadable PDF file that contains the available blanks, along with key blank stats (including CCS values). We’ll be updating the PDF as new blanks become available or are revised. If you want to see what’s available (new fly-blank stats will be in there shortly!), [...]

How’s that for a set of acronyms? Well, if you know what they mean, the you know what the chart is all about (if you don’t know yet, have a look here). North Fork’s itinerant graphic designer slaved for two days over hot pixels to get this thing into shape, and now it’s yours to [...]

Emory lamented the limits of the printed word, as did we. It’s not in person, but how about a podcast? Here is 54 minutes of entertainment radio featuring the one and only Gary. Click here.

Once builders and casters started using the CCS and began looking at ERN values for heavy-duty rods (Mag Bass comes to mind immediately), they realized that some rods were “off the chart.” While Dr. Bill did indeed create values to deal with rods up to ERN200, the steps between numbers required calculation (not like that [...]

One reason Gary got into this business is to help his custom rod builder friends. He wants to hear from you. If you have questions about blanks, rod making, graphite, CCA, fishing, whatever. Write them here (or email them). I’ll make sure that Gary gets as many of them answered here on Monday as he [...]

As some Connection readers may have already noted, the CCS Values page (look under “Pages” in the right-hand sidebar) is now live, with actual CCS data. There may be some adjustments to the data shown (for example, we may yet add or subtract columns, depending on relevancy), but the thing is live and there are [...]

Well, we’re live! And with that, a little introduction is in order…
No promises, but we’ll be providing frequent updates as to what we are working on at North Fork. This will be the first place to learn of what we are working on. Stop by often, leave a thought or ask a question. [...]