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Posts: 117 03/14/2008 13:40	Tags : None I'm almost all bamboo - but.... kept a pre-im6 winston graphite 9' 2/1 5 wt for whenever I don't want to risk cane. Also a 4 piece 9' 5wt Powell that fits in a duffle bag, but a rod I obviously haven't fished in a while. I forgot I had it. A 9' 9wt St. Croix if I ever fish saltwater, and a 7' 4 wt just because it was the first rod I wrapped. btw my 15 and 12-year-olds fish cane and not the inexpensive rods. Last Edited By: jz2 03/15/2008 22:41. Edited 1 time.
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pvansch1		#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 3452 03/14/2008 14:03 Moderator	None - I sold or traded them for bamboo. I did buy a Temple Fork 9' 10wt for saltwater though, next project a 8/9et bamboo for salt. Pete
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gofish60		#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1658 03/14/2008 14:05 Registered User	8 12' St Croix 4 pc for ease of transport and a couple of 9' "lake" rods for Muskies. gofish
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nohackle	graphite holdovers	#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 562 03/14/2008 14:25	the only trout rod I held onto was an Eastbranch 8'6 4wt . Its my understanding that Hal Bacon had something to do with their taper design. I know Mr. Bacon looks in here on occcasion maybe he could confirm that.? That rod combines all the great features of the Scott G series and older IM6 winstons. That eastbranch taught me what a flyrod could do and I'll never sell it and still pull it out once and again. I use a loomis crosscurrent on the flats but would gladly trade it for an old 9'0 8wt GLX any day. My back porch is partially held up by my old RPLX. . For trout there is nothing like bamboo but long, light and powerful still means graphite when I'm out in the salt
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uniphasian		#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1798 03/14/2008 14:38 Moderator	Graphite rod? In the singular? I still have a bunch of graphite rods to use in boats (fresh and salt). All of the boat rods are Sage's and range from 6wt - 14wt. I have trout rods that I use occasionally - mostly Winston IM-6 ranging from 6-1/2' #2 to 9-1/2' #6. The 9-1/2 footer is a great all-round western trout rod and handles everything from midges on 7x to streamers on fat sections of cut-back leaders that are so big I don't really know what size they are. I still think the Winston IM6 8-1/2' #4 rod is one of the greatest trout rods ever made. I also have a Loomis 9' #5 IMX rod that I loan to kids and visitors who don't know how to handle rods. Oh, don't forget the glass rods... - Uni Last Edited By: uniphasian 03/14/2008 14:41. Edited 1 time.
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Flyman615	Graphite keepers	#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2603 03/14/2008 15:01	I just finished a storage rack last evening for a bunch of my plastic rods. I really like the early Orvis Superfine graphites (unsanded grey blanks with brown or red wraps). In fact, I go out of my way to find them. I've fished them since the late 1970's. For example, I just acquired an 8 1/2' Limestone (1984) for a WF-6-F and have matched it with a CFO IV. What a casting machine it is! And last month I also traded for a much sought after 7'9" Far & Fine 5 wt. which may well be Orvis' best graphite taper ever. Besides the early Orvis rods I also like and use several 1980's Fenwick HMG's. In both cases their actions are, in many ways, quite similar to modern bamboo. As for when I fish them...well, I guess when I feel like it! Regards, Flyman Last Edited By: Flyman615 03/21/2008 18:31. Edited 3 times.
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RonT1		#6	[url]	[-]
Posts: 423 03/14/2008 15:23	A 7 1/2', 4 wt. by Jon Apple, a 5 wt., 8 1/2' Orvis Trident, which I use for teaching in the Ohio DNR "Learn to Flyfish" program, and a 9', 8 wt. Fenwick HMXF, for North Coast Steelhead.. I put the Orvis and Fenwick through paces that I would not even think about doing with the Jon Apple or my Bambooz. R Last Edited By: RonT1 03/14/2008 15:28. Edited 1 time.
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firehole		#7	[url]	[-]
Posts: 3166 03/14/2008 15:36 Local user	I've retained three graphites a Sage TCR 9' 6wt. 4pc., Kilwell 8'6" 5wt. 4pc. and Winston BL5 9' 8wt. 5pc. I'll be looking at selling some of these rods in the near future when Sweetgrass gets their graphite operation up and going which should be in the near future. Dennis
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Boo	Graphites	#8	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1290 03/14/2008 15:48	I've kept 5 Orvis Superfine's, not the earliest versions but the models from earlier this decade. The 7/11 is the nicest longer 4wt I've ever cast whether it be bamboo, glass or graphite! I also own and 2, with a 3rd on the way, graphite Spey rods. But, these days the majority of my rods are fiberglass from Phillipson, Winston,and Orvis to the later Diamondglass and McFarland rods with a couple D. Lyons glass rods on the way. I've sold my longer cane rods and have kept 3 Orvis rods for now. I'd like to add one more, then I'll be done! Last Edited By: Boo 03/14/2008 15:50. Edited 1 time.
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JPMarci		#9	[url]	[-]
Posts: 90 03/14/2008 15:50	Powell Signature Series Ultra light 9' 3wt. (wife's rod) Powell Hexagraph 7'6" 4-5 wt Both made before the destruction of the company. John
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spruce grouse		#10	[url]	[-]
Posts: 983 03/14/2008 15:52	Scott SES 5 wt., now relegated to a boat rod. Great for tricos to hopper/droppers. Scott E2 6 wt. four piece for travel, boating for smallies. Scott A2 10' 7 wt., for steelhead when it's so cold I'm afraid I'll snap a tip due to ice in the guides. Powell 9' 9 wt. for stripers.
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SnooKen		#11	[url]	[-]
Posts: 515 03/14/2008 16:23	I've kept 'em all. Cane flyrods aren't a conversion to a new faith for me, more a broadening of belief and enlargement of dogma. Ken
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wbgv		#12	[url]	[-]
Posts: 105 03/14/2008 16:36	I kept my Sage LL series[3] in play...and 1 Scott for saltwater..but all small stream fishing is done with boo.. wbgv[mike] 'never put your life in peril-death cuts into your fishing time'
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quashnet		#13	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1834 03/14/2008 16:40 Moderatus Muscae	I kept two graphite rods. In 1992 I asked Bill Franke to build me a rod to catch Arctic Grayling on the North Slope of Alaska, where I was headed to support fisheries biology field studies of grayling in tundra rivers. I did not dare bring my PHY Martha Marie on the trip, so I asked Bill if there was anything in portable multipiece graphite he could build that would come close to the MM. Bill settled on an eight-foot, four-piece Fisher blank that was old technology and hardly the latest thing even back then. I fish it with a DT5F, same line as I use on the MM, and it sure is a very nice rod in and of itself, never mind making comparisons with the MM, although it does have a lot in common with it. In total I have made ten trips to Alaska, nine of them to the North Slope, and all of them with this rod in my suitcase, accompanied by a couple of 3-inch Hardy St. George reels. I have literally caught thousands of Arctic grayling on this rod. Almost all of them were weighed, measured, and tagged, and a lot of them were caught and studied more than once, in order to get data on the North Slope populations. On this rod I am sure I have caught more lake trout on dry flies in June in Alaska than I have caught brook trout in June at home in Massachusetts, and some very nice Arctic char too. I also kept a Sage 890RP that I bought in 1987 for Atlantic salmon and saltwater. Quashnet's Paul H. Young Rod Database has photos and descriptions of 290 PHY Co. rods, plus catalogs, accessories, etc. Thank you to all who continue to send me PHY rod photos and info.
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teter		#14	[url]	[-]
Posts: 866 03/14/2008 17:06	A 9-foot Winston 5-weight, an 8-foot Sage 1-weight and a 7-foot T&T 3-weight. And I bought a 9 1/2-foot St. Croix 8-weight travel rod that I used for roosterfish last year.
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CtKenC		#15	[url]	[-]
Posts: 162 03/14/2008 17:08	A Winston "WT 8' 3pc 5wt ... just a glorious rod. And, my Winston BIIX 9ft 4wt,, 6wt, and 7wt ... all great travel rods and although they don't get used but once in a great while when travelling, they are just great rods. The 7wt is a great rod for throwing Smallmouth Poppers. My Sage SLT 5wt is also a great travel rod, or, a great rod to loan to Visitors who are not caniacs. Last Edited By: CtKenC 03/15/2008 22:55. Edited 2 times.
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Ken M 44		#16	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2307 03/14/2008 17:33 Immoderatus Britannicus	I have one potential collector graphite which is the only one ever made by Jennings-Moran and a Sage LL279 (I do not know really what for because I never use it) and the butt section of an unidentified rod blank (possibly a Loomis) because it has an ATH reel seat on it. All my fishing rods are cane.
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Ben Kann		#17	[url]	[-]
Posts: 47 03/14/2008 17:42	A very old Fenwick glass 9' for #10-11wgt (the first flyrod I ever bought. It was sold to (green as grass) me as an "all purpose" rod and a 9'6" for #9-10wgt T&T early graphite that I use for Stripers and blues.
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David Dornblaser		#18	[url]	[-]
Posts: 97 03/14/2008 17:55	7 - spey rods, graphite makes cane spey rods become wall hangings. 3 - Winston WT's 1 TMR plus 3 more on order my wife BIIx's Everything else is gone or will be eBayed. - David www.UpperMidwestFlyFishing.com - fly fishing in the Upper Midwest. Spring Creeks to Smallies to Steelhead.
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greendrake ll		#19	[url]	[-]
Posts: 619 03/14/2008 18:02	Well it wasn't hard for me to decide which graphite rod to keep.I've only owned one graphite rod in my life.I've been fishing with bamboo rods since I was 16 yrs. old.Other than occasional flings with fiberglass(which I still have 6 of) it's been all bamboo.But a close friend of mine who owned a fly shop back in the late 70's-early 80's bought 75 HL Leonard blanks when they stopped using the Exxon blanks.It cost me $23.00 for the blank and for $40.00 dollars more (inluding all components) George Bell of Frederick,Md. built me an 8'3" 6wt.It's a very nice rod for what it cost me( IIRC Leonard was charging around $250 at the time).I still use it occassionally for smallmouths on the Potomac.
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tbc1415	Graphite keepers	#20	[url]	[-]
Posts: 98 03/14/2008 18:25	Orvis Performer 9ft 2pc 5wt early Orvis graphite, blank by Fisher, assembled by self. A very nice casting rod. We have along history together. I will cry when it breaks. Sage SP 9 1/2ft. 3pc 5wt, factory rod. A good all purpose rod. Sage SP 10ft, 3pc 7wt assembled by self. A good dry line summer steelhead rod. TC
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