I’ve been working on this rod for several years and it’s been in planning for about 15 years. This is one of my Grandfather’s rods, and it needed a complete rebuild. It started life as a modest 8’6” Heddon Viscount for a HCH/GBF, painted white with orange wraps. Over time the ferrules didn’t work well, and a small rodent had taken off a good bit of the grip. I completely stripped the rod blank, added a second tip, re-ferruled the rod with some NOS Rodon Super Swiss ferules, and refinished the blank. I reproduced his favorite grip (EC Powell influence) and upgraded the reel seat. I added more snakes to an appropriate 11 guides. I wrapped the rod in a Gary Howells or Claudio style by overwrapping the ferrules, signature wrap style and tipping. Another member of this board sent me some NOS thread that I needed to make this happen.
The rod is pretty nice with DT7, Actually better than I thought it might be and surprisingly good with an 8wt bass taper. I plan to hopefully use it some this year with poppers for bass (his favorite style) and I will decide it I’m willing to fly it to MT/WY to fish on the Madison River next fall. His name was WP.
Pictures are not the best, but here goes.
Posted: 14 Jan 2017, 16:43 • 
