Aroner Fishing Creek 7' 3/2 #5 Gary Howells 11 cork cigar grip

11 cork cigar grip

straight as the day it came out of the shop

Great example of the classic raised pillar style of reelmaking

This Hunt is marked serial #80142 and is an excellent example of the high quality rods that Leonard produced when Tom and I worked there in the late 1970's and early 1980's

A Walt Carpenter Browntone fly rod 6'3" 2-piece

Aroner Fishing Creek 7' 3/2 #5 Gary Howells 11 cork cigar gripIt was fun to see this Aroner 7' 3 2 #5 "Fishing Creek" model from the consignor, this one with a DF action. This was a rare model for a few reasons. The first is simply that I didn't make many of these: the "Fishing Creek" model was intended to have duplicate tips which were not mirrored (node spacing). No ferrule plugs were provided and the rod came with a less expensive unpolished aluminum brass top tube. However all bamboo parts, ferrules, reel