Always good to see you Tom. The rod in the photo is a c. 1915-30 Leonard No. 39 Fairy Catskill, a true 3-wt. from the 20s. A guy brought a leather box of cane pieces to my house offering anything I might buy from it. Almost all of it was dead, and low-grade. Sadly, there was a Thomas Special not even with salvageable hardware. I thought the Leonard was toothpick stock: only one piece of a tip, short and split, badly scarfed mid, missing two halves of different ferrules. I paid salvage value for the Leonard hardware because I knew I could always sell it. But I sent it to Dennis Stone and he said what was there was viable. Amazing workmanship, re-scarfing the mid, scarfing the tip, new tip from scratch, new guides where needed and machined four ferrule halves. He saved every original wrap that could be saved. So with $650 in it, -and worth now maybe $100 more - I have the chance to fish a rod I could never afford in original condition. The reel I rebuilt for Michael Sinclair (cane rod author), then he turned around a year later and sold it to me for an embarrassingly low price. Just to show how sound the rod really is, a honking tailwater hen - not that this is a tailwater rod, but I have to take to the tailwater every now and then...
<http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/decoy/fish7/aP3280010.jpg> Great dry fly rod, but a real joy for swinging soft hackles <http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/decoy/fish8/aP1080001.jpg> On Thursday, August 28, 2014 8:33:10 AM UTC-5, Tom Goodmann wrote: > > "Like. A lot." Nice photo, Ron. (If I am right about what I see, I'd > guess that not many here may know the significance of that reel in relation > to your identity elsewhere!) > > Tom > Miami > > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Ron Mc <bulld...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> >> <http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/estes/Chama/aP7050087.jpg> >> >> gratuitous fish photo >> >> >> On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 12:15:25 PM UTC-5, RJM wrote: >>> >>> I don't fly fish but I do fish. I do a bunch of pan fishing using a 7 >>> foot ultralight pole, 2 or 4lb line and a spinning reel. >>> On Monday, August 11, 2014 11:12:24 AM UTC-5, Roy Drinkwater wrote: >>>> >>>> The Redemption topic got me thinking about how many RBW members >>>> fly fish. I know that Grant fishes, but how many others? Fly fishing >>>> seems like a natural hobby along with good bikes, right? >>>> >>>> Roy Drinkwater >>>> Lititz, PA >>>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/ZWOXLdbpAiA/unsubscribe >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
