03-18-2007, 07:50 PM
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this rod has seen more miles that most cars.
It first started out in the back pack when I first started traveling on a two wheeler. (peddle veriety) I rode 10 miles on my bike to sears one day when I saw this rod, (yep, that was back when the sears catalog was a prized possion and befor computers)
Its lived in the glove box of a dozen cars in the last thirty years. well now days under the seat because the glove boxs are to small these days.
it also fits in my tackle box along with a couple other newer telliscopic rods and reels, Its caught more fish than I can begin to emagin. its on its second reel, out lived the first one, It stuck with me longer than any woman ever has, but then I had an old stray cat that stayed with me longer than most women..[
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I had to re-glue the eye back on it one time here a couple years ago.
couldnt tell you the number of bridges we fished off of, the number of bends on the road with a river or lake just few feet away we cast in to, the number of kids I taught kids how to fish with it.
the number of good times and the number of hard times that this rod has fed me and many others I have met in passing.
I have to say when I bought it, it was a bit pricy, I spent $2.35. in thirty years I had to spend less than a pennies worth of epoxy for repair.
My first reel now sits on the window sill on the front poarch collecting dust and becoming home for spiders from year to year, I paid a whopping $15.oo for it the same year I bought the rod (with in the week) my very first rod and reel I ever perchased for my self.
My second reel came to a whopping $35.oo dollars...
You may be able to find one in a garage sale some where, It is an old SportFisher 16 inches when retracted, 6 foot 5 inches when extended...
it is the blue gill catchenest and carp fightenest rod you will ever own....
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[/url][/center][/center] [center]click for larger immage[/center] this rod has seen more miles that most cars.
It first started out in the back pack when I first started traveling on a two wheeler. (peddle veriety) I rode 10 miles on my bike to sears one day when I saw this rod, (yep, that was back when the sears catalog was a prized possion and befor computers)
Its lived in the glove box of a dozen cars in the last thirty years. well now days under the seat because the glove boxs are to small these days.
it also fits in my tackle box along with a couple other newer telliscopic rods and reels, Its caught more fish than I can begin to emagin. its on its second reel, out lived the first one, It stuck with me longer than any woman ever has, but then I had an old stray cat that stayed with me longer than most women..[
] I had to re-glue the eye back on it one time here a couple years ago.
couldnt tell you the number of bridges we fished off of, the number of bends on the road with a river or lake just few feet away we cast in to, the number of kids I taught kids how to fish with it.
the number of good times and the number of hard times that this rod has fed me and many others I have met in passing.
I have to say when I bought it, it was a bit pricy, I spent $2.35. in thirty years I had to spend less than a pennies worth of epoxy for repair.
My first reel now sits on the window sill on the front poarch collecting dust and becoming home for spiders from year to year, I paid a whopping $15.oo for it the same year I bought the rod (with in the week) my very first rod and reel I ever perchased for my self.
My second reel came to a whopping $35.oo dollars...
You may be able to find one in a garage sale some where, It is an old SportFisher 16 inches when retracted, 6 foot 5 inches when extended...
it is the blue gill catchenest and carp fightenest rod you will ever own....
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