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14ft 9wt Sage One with a Vosseler (Gaula River, Norway)

Grady 4 weight bamboo with a Pflueger 1494

Just picked up a "Made in England" Battenkill 3/4 and put it on my Sage SP376. Sweet combo!

a couple of mine

Very nice rod/reel setup. I have a Pflueger 1495 1/2, makes sweeeet music when a trout is takin line! Have had it since the late 70's, take it out a few times a season.
Cane rod is on my bucket list.
No pictures but my favourite rod is my St Croix 9 foot 6wt with an Orvis Battenkill reel.

Orvis Rocky Mountain 3 piece 10 ft. 7 weight and my dad's LA Battenkill. My best fish from a trip to Yellowstone last summer. My dad passed away about 5 years ago and left me all his gear. The fly is a BH peacock and black wooly bugger that he tied about a year before he died.

I am an Orvis devotee (ok, Orvis junkie!), primarily of their older stuff. My favorite dry fly rod is a 70's vintage Spring Creek rod (a 5 weight, 9' 3").


image by smousefam5, on Flickr

I just took delivery of an older Fenwick FF75 Feralite 6wt.

That's a 7.5 foot, 5/6wt glass rod made in either 69 or 70 (J series).

These are great old rods that flex right down to the cork. My plan is to use it from my drift boat for trout dry fly and light nymphing on the Rogue. I have an Okuma SLV 4/5 reel for it.

This one isn't mine, but representative as it has the same aluminum rod case and flannel bag.

53, I have one just like it.. It was my first good fly rod bought about 1972.. Have used it most years since that time.. I also have 2 8'ers, 1 8.5' all for a 6 wt line. Also picked up a 9 ' 8wt for bass.. After using these rods for so many years, it is difficult to warm up to the new rods with about as much flex as a telephone pole.. Enjoy..

That is a big reason I like the full-flex Orvis rods from the 70's. They have much of the flex of glass with out the weight.

Agreed! I have to slow down my timing a bit when I first start out - it's a totally different feel.

I have a quickie steelhead drift with the bro tomorrow and will sling a few nymphs just for fun. Even a small trout on the glass rods is a treat

Just found this section of the forum. I'm new around here but I think I'm going to like it!

These are my favorite rods:

Very nice rods, and welcome... At 19 degrees, it will be a while before we can use them!!!!!!

Ha Ha! You got that right! Two feet of snow on the ground makes it tough to get a good drift. . .

Nice Granger! A 7030 by chance?

Never cast a Bob Summers' rod, though have read "good things". A bit out of my price range By almost an order of magnitude.

You have a good eye, it is a 7030, but I like the 7633 even better. Bob makes a fine rod. I am proud to call him a friend. We'd were squirrel hunting just a week or two ago. Most folks would be surprised to know that he likes hunting and guns as much as fishing. Hell maybe more!