Mine was put together by John Weaver after a gifted Shakespeare jobbie that unfortunately snapped on the the first outing.

What was your first rod?

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my first fly rod was an Airflow Delta Plus 10ft for a 7# bought brand new for the princely sum of £42.00
Scott

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My first fly rod was a kit from woolies in helensburgh when i was 12,the only flies that were in it were dries and,it took me about 2 months to hook a trout out of the little burn i used to fish,when i eventually did hook one it flew over my head like a startled pigeon! I had to run after it to put the wee chap back

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Can't remember the make of first rod I was given but the first one I bought for myself out of saving paper round money was a Shakespeare Sigma Graphite.

The Pirate.

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I built my first fly rod. It was on a Fibatube 9'3" #7/8 blank purchased from Mc somethings of Carlisle in about 1978.
Like a prat I later bast==dised it into would you believe a leger rod

The chap I eventually sold it too is still using it

My first rod was a 8" wooden fly rod of some sort given to me by my dad.
I learned to fish with a split cane which is not bad since i am only 34.

My dads first rod was a old tank ariel which i think is pretty cool.
Not sure on length, i will need to ask him, the start of fast actio rods!

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Munro

An old split cane given to me by my Grandfather. At the time is was great to use, now I look back I see I'm lucky not to have been left permanently disabled by the thing! Man it was heavy.

Heh heh, Scott, that was my first when I came to the UK 10yrs ago albeit in a 9'6" size. Lovely rods for what they were

My very first fly rod in SA was some sort of 60% graphite Elbe model; an 8'6" #6.



Ben

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Fabulous input - keep em' coming lads!

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Gawd,

We are REALLY going back into dinosaur country here! My first fly rod was a thing called an "Alglass" from some company in Redditch whose name I have totally forgotten. It was a 9' two piece hollow glass rod with metal ferrules. I bought it with the proceeds of a paper round in about 1963 and I think it cost me 39/6d or just short of £2 which was quite a lot in those days. I used that rod for years - certainly up until the late 1970's when it was superceded by more modern glass fibre reservoir rods and then by carbon fibre. My biggest grayling was caught on it from a river in Austria - and it is still my biggest grayling at an ounce over 3lbs.