Picked up a job lot of 4 assorted rods on ebay the other day for £2.70, and within it was an Edgar Sealey Aquarius fly rod. Has anyone got any info on this rod? As I can't seem to find anything online at all...

Here you go:
"A particularly nice Aquarius 10 ft. hollow glass fly rod. The rod has a fairly powerful action and would be perfect for Sea-Trout in smaller rivers. Aquarius rods were hand made in Scotland and are still produced. (I believe they have a website, so you may want to look it up.) The rod will be around 30-40 years old, expertly made and finished and in super condition, the only point of note being some staining on the cork handle. I would suggest using a no. 7 or 8 line with it."

Taken from Anglers Rendezvous website.
http://www.anglersrendezvous.co.uk/usedflyrods.php


DB

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The Edgar Sealey Aquarius is an entirely different animal to the ones produced in Hamilton street, Carluke, Scotland under the Aquarius brand.

Sealey were more focused on coarse fishing rods. I don't remember them doing fly rods, but obviously they must have.

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It would say made in Scotland on it for a start.

i think he has now moved to Perth or Auchterarder.

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Thanks lads.

Given that the hand-built glass Aquarius flyrod is only worth low £30-ies, is a safe bet to say the Edgar Sealey mass-produced glass flyrod will be worth a chunk less.

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I would like to know where Anglers Rendezvous get their valuations from they seem like pure fantasy to me

The first fly rod I bought was an Edgar Sealey Black Arrow. I bought it in 1974. I think it was the successor to the Aquarius. At a guess yours is about 40 years old.

With a very few exceptions (B&W, Hardy etc) old glass rods fetch very low money on Ebay. I am keeping my eye open for a short light glass rod at the moment so I see the prices they are going for and they are hardly worth the trouble selling.

I had a Hardy copy - a Pateke Morton 7' hollow glass spinning rod which saw a lot of use in the late 70's. Fabulous rod if you can find one.

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Hi, I got mine also in a bunch of several rods. First I had an idea to just rip off the agate stripper and tiptop and put those to a splitcane rod I just had built. But Aquarius proved to be quite nice rod to cast, also it proved to be quite powerful when playing with fish.

So I just cleaned the blanks, re-wrapped windings and varnished. And the rod earned its place in rodcase on my journey to Vancouver Island, Canada an year ago.

So The rod is 9 ft long, light, powerful, excellent to play with bigger fish also up to over 15 kg King Salmons. With an appropriate line (Mastery Stillwater 7#), very long casting too.

I guess the rod is from early 70’s or late 60’s rather than 80’s. Because of the extremely light construction, agate stripper and tiptop, it certainly has not been one of the cheapest rods of its time.
Collectible vintage rod? I do not know, but a hell of a rod for fishing anyway, do not put it on wall, just go fishing and enjoy!

A Qualicum river Chinook, Edgar Sealey Aquarius and me October 2009:

This thread has got me wondering how much, glass rods lose thier rigidity over time. I'm sure the fibres experience some delamination, or the bonding agent or resin, loses its, adhesion. I have a couple of old glass rods that i used in the Eighties, and back then i though they were really good rods, with great action. In recent years, when I have had the odd rare attack of nostalgia, I have pulled them out and tried to fish with them, and they are horrible, nothing like I remember. floppy sticks that have absolutely no practical advantage to modern fishing. Even the so called, faster, or stiffer rods back then, have become loose and wobbly.