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Monbla256, when it comes to 8 1/2” bamboo fly rods Jim Payne broke the mold with his tapers, I have a sweet 204L that is a dream of a 4 wt. if you want a beast of a 7 wt then a San Francisco era Winston will blow your socks off, the late Doug Merrick stated it was probably the finest taper Winston had to offer in bamboo. If you ever read Trout Magic by Robert Traver (Michigan Supreme Justice John Voelker) he dedicated Chapter 13 to rodmaker Morris Kushner titled Morris the Rodmaker. It talks about the Judge meeting Morris on a stream and sparking up a conversation then Morris opened the trunk of his Cadillac and the Judge spies a slew of bamboo fly rods.Morris spots a trout rising perhaps 80’ away, strings up the rod and encourages the Judge to try for the fish. The Judge countered that it was clearly 2x further than he could cast but Morris insists the Judge try it so he does and the fish takes but the Judge pulls the hook from the fishes mouth an yells Wowie!Morris gifted the Judge the rod and later as the Judge gets more Kushner rods he gifts the rod to his fishing companion Ed “Soapman” Loptspeich (sic) he’s Chapter 11 of the same book. I purchased the rod from one of Ed’s sons and my first reaction was a shade more colorful than Wowie!One rodmaker I know stated it could cast a brick through a steel door and has always been a favorite for folks to cast at the fly fishing gatherings I used to attend. It wasn’t until a few years back that Ernie Woods, the Judge’ son in law, told me that was the rod the Judge wrote about in Chapter 13 because he remembered when the Judge gave it to the Soapman, it’s one of my most treasured rods and I call it the Worlds Greatest 5 wt.banjo
Monbla256, when it comes to 8 1/2” bamboo fly rods Jim Payne broke the mold with his tapers, I have a sweet 204L that is a dream of a 4 wt. if you want a beast of a 7 wt then a San Francisco era Winston will blow your socks off, the late Doug Merrick stated it was probably the finest taper Winston had to offer in bamboo. If you ever read Trout Magic by Robert Traver (Michigan Supreme Justice John Voelker) he dedicated Chapter 13 to rodmaker Morris Kushner titled Morris the Rodmaker. It talks about the Judge meeting Morris on a stream and sparking up a conversation then Morris opened the trunk of his Cadillac and the Judge spies a slew of bamboo fly rods.
Morris spots a trout rising perhaps 80’ away, strings up the rod and encourages the Judge to try for the fish. The Judge countered that it was clearly 2x further than he could cast but Morris insists the Judge try it so he does and the fish takes but the Judge pulls the hook from the fishes mouth an yells Wowie!
Morris gifted the Judge the rod and later as the Judge gets more Kushner rods he gifts the rod to his fishing companion Ed “Soapman” Loptspeich (sic) he’s Chapter 11 of the same book. I purchased the rod from one of Ed’s sons and my first reaction was a shade more colorful than Wowie!
One rodmaker I know stated it could cast a brick through a steel door and has always been a favorite for folks to cast at the fly fishing gatherings I used to attend. It wasn’t until a few years back that Ernie Woods, the Judge’ son in law, told me that was the rod the Judge wrote about in Chapter 13 because he remembered when the Judge gave it to the Soapman, it’s one of my most treasured rods and I call it the Worlds Greatest 5 wt.
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