Aroner 7'6" 3/2 #4 Spring Creek "Full Flex" 7'3" and light brown wraps

and light brown wraps

An excellent copy of Angling in America by Charles Goodspeed

Keeper is 1 flat left

Serial #046

an 8′ 2-piece

Aroner 7'6" 3/2 #4 Spring Creek "Full Flex" 7'3" and light brown wrapsIt's no secret that most of the rods I build are typically modern variations on established Catskill tapers, designs which couple crisp actions with fine tips to produce maximum casting accuracy. Over the past few years however, I've been quietly experimenting with a deeper flexing action, one that goes farther down to the swell and which is meant to create an action which seems to "cast itself" without being excessively slow. That is the design