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Post 07 Nov 2020, 05:33 • #1 
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Joined: 09/03/20
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Location: Hiroshima, Japan
My first fly rod is Daiwa Phantom PPF-806.
It is a 8 feet and 6 wt glass rod and was purchased around 40 years ago when I was an 11 year old boy.
In the first 10 years, I caught a variety of fish with this rod: largemouth bass, bluegill, chub, and carp ...
After that, I stopped using this rod altogether, but I remembered this rod through discussions in this forum.







The weather was nice last weekend, so I went fishing with this rod.
It was colder than I expected and fish were slow.
Eventually, I caught some largemouth bass and bluegill.
I want to enjoy fishing with this rod next season.



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Post 07 Nov 2020, 07:46 • #2 
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Joined: 06/21/06
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Location: Orygun
No pictures of it, but a Browning 6/7wt graphite rod I bought from Drumhellers in Walla Walla, WA. Incidentally I do still have (and use) the Medalist that came with it.


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Post 07 Nov 2020, 08:19 • #3 
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Joined: 12/20/18
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Location: Yorkshire
Mine was also a 6/7wt, Shakespeare professional fly. Only ever used it on trips to Scotland, I forget I have this rod sometimes when there are times when it would be handy! I superglue the tip ring back on a while ago, quite fancy fishing it again.


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Post 07 Nov 2020, 10:23 • #4 
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Joined: 03/12/15
Posts: 269
Location: US-CT
10 dollar heddon glass rod with a south bend finalist reel
how i wish i had kept it now.
it was old school glass with metal ferrules. caught my first fly rod trout with it. hooked for life


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Post 07 Nov 2020, 10:38 • #5 
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Joined: 10/20/11
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Location: US-MD
Sage DS 9 foot #6, 2 pc.... first trout was a brookie on a #16 sulfur dun.


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Post 07 Nov 2020, 12:51 • #6 
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Joined: 05/13/18
Posts: 69
Location: US-KS
1974 FF806-2 bought at Kittery Trading Post, Kittery Maine. Don't recall what I paid for it.


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Post 07 Nov 2020, 14:00 • #7 
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Joined: 06/19/14
Posts: 126
Location: Columbia, MO
Heddon Pal Pro Weight for seven weight line. Was a Christmas gift from my father. Mid-sixties. I still have it, although it hasn't been fished for some time. With a South Bend Oren-o-Matic reel. I thought I was top cat.

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Post 07 Nov 2020, 15:15 • #8 
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Joined: 04/20/07
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Location: US-ME
As kid in the 1950s, I learned to fly cast and spin cast with a single solid glass spinning rod, 7', that had sliding rings, so an open faced spinning reel could be mounted midway, or the rings slid all the way down to hold a fly reel. This, and my simple fixed click reel, I got someplace like Sears or a town hardware store on a returnable bottle-scavenging budget. I wouldn't call it a fly rod, but I did learn to fly cast with it. Soon my grandfather's bamboo fly rod and OC reel were of interest as a real fly-fishing set up that I tried, but a 9' wetfly bamboo rod was a lot for a little kid. I had a lawnmowing budget by the early 1960s and bought a Montague hollow glass, 8' and a Pflueger 1494. Still have both reels and an identical replacement to the Monty, used often in recent years.

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Post 07 Nov 2020, 15:25 • #9 
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Location: Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
A Heddon Pro Weight #8381 purchased new in 1970. Still in use and getting the job done.


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Post 07 Nov 2020, 16:21 • #10 
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Joined: 06/09/05
Posts: 2524
Location: US-CO
Like whrlpool, I first put a Pfleuger reel on my spinning rod (a Shakespeare, as I recall) with slip rings when I decided to "fly fish" in the 60s. As soon as I had saved $30, I bought a Fenwick FF-79, 8 ft for 6 wt. Years later I lost that rod off the back of my motorcycle returning from a trip. Thanks to ebay, I was able to replace it in more recent years.

At the time I lost the FF-79, I purchased an FF-70 as a replacement to fish with. The FF-79 and FF-70 are still my two favorite Fenwicks.


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Post 07 Nov 2020, 17:46 • #11 
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Joined: 02/23/10
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Location: SF Bay Area
A 9' Sage DS-6 paired with a Young made Sage 106M. Between that and a Signature Loomis 7'6" 4wt my bases were covered.

Still have both. The rod is one inch shorter from dodging a thunderstorm and the reel is still frozen 20 years later after fishing a brackish lagoon for sea run cuts.


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Post 07 Nov 2020, 18:14 • #12 
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Joined: 04/20/07
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Location: US-ME
Pave, awesome story. My Montague went for many long motorcycle camping-fishing trips, canoe trips, and car trips. I never lost it off a motorcycle, or dumped the canoe with it, or shut a car door on it. I did recover it once after some kids stole it from my campsite. Then 10 or 12 years ago, it was stolen right off the bankside of a favorite panfish spot twenty minutes from home. My bad, having left it behind. Someone grabbed it before I turned back to get it. You might remember, after that, a generous board member offered what turned out to be the identical rod in excellent condition, and wouldn't even accept payment for shipping. There's an old "pay-it-forward" thread on FFR about it.


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Post 07 Nov 2020, 18:16 • #13 
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Joined: 03/09/20
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Location: US-PA
FF806 with SA System 6 reel that I got back in 1976, I still have it and I still use it, every now and then.


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Post 07 Nov 2020, 19:30 • #14 
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Joined: 01/26/13
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Location: US-PA
My first rod was a hollow steel 7' True Temper that my father gave to when I was about 10 years old. That would be 1961. A few years later I made a back cast and caught a tree. The rod crimped and was toast.


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Post 07 Nov 2020, 20:32 • #15 
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9’ 5 weight Orvis Clearwater.


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Post 07 Nov 2020, 22:56 • #16 
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Joined: 09/22/14
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Location: Charlottesville-VA
This is fun. My first was a Cortland Pro-Crest 8' that I still have... part of it. Tip broke over the years, and I tried to make it into a multi-piece. Well it's a bit of a lost cause but after fishing with my Grandpa's Phillipson for a bit I was left with "glass splinters". Now I'm the proud owner of too many Phillipson's. Plus some others... don't tell my wife!

If I have my way, they will make it back out into the world to appreciative hands. Fingers crossed.


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Post 07 Nov 2020, 23:53 • #17 
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Joined: 12/18/15
Posts: 95
Location: Annapolis, MD
Montague 8 1/2' 6wt with a JC Higgins reel and a varnished line bought from the well used rack at a local shop in about 1969. I still have both rod and reel. I replaced it a year later with a Fenwick FF705 that I built, and still have that.


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Post 07 Nov 2020, 23:53 • #18 
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Joined: 11/25/09
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Mine was a Saint Croix Imperial 9’ 6/7wt 4pc. Used it for smallies and lake run Steelies on the Lake Erie Tribs.


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Post 08 Nov 2020, 13:46 • #19 
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Location: US-NM
It was 1973, Gibson's Discount, De Queen, Arkansas. I'd read an Orvis ad where the Wes Jordan 8', 8 weight was the ideal "all around " rod. It didn't matter that the 8X8 at Gibson's had only 5 guides, was Shakespeare glass and cost 8 bucks. I ordered a Sears reel and line and was ready to go. Spinning was still my go-to method but I did manage to catch some panfish, bass and a few trout with the Shakespeare.


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Post 08 Nov 2020, 17:18 • #20 
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bob138 wrote:
This is fun. My first was a Cortland Pro-Crest 8' that I still have... part of it. Tip broke over the years, and I tried to make it into a multi-piece. Well it's a bit of a lost cause but after fishing with my Grandpa's Phillipson for a bit I was left with "glass splinters". Now I'm the proud owner of too many Phillipson's. Plus some others... don't tell my wife!

If I have my way, they will make it back out into the world to appreciative hands. Fingers crossed.


Was that one of the "baby-poop brown" colored ProCrests? I have a ProCrest that is a 7 1/2' for 6 wt. Used to have 2 of them but broke one in an argument with a downed tree and a kayak.


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Post 08 Nov 2020, 18:03 • #21 
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Joined: 07/22/20
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こんにちは takeru,
Mine was a St Croix Criterion 9 foot GAF 2 piece (duh...1963) with what appears to be aluminum ferrules. It has been with me since that time along with the JW Young Beaudex reel that accompanied me to the St Mary's River, Nova Scotia. I would never post images of the rod until I get her hair done, nails cleaned and polished, and some good makeup applied. Perhaps a couple of weeks at a Spa in Argentina would bring back the gloss I remember from those so uncomplicated days.
Seriously, thanks for bringing back the memories.
Best,
JJ


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Post 08 Nov 2020, 18:38 • #22 
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Joined: 01/26/13
Posts: 483
Location: US-PA
I would also like to add that the first fly reel I bought was a Berkley 540 around 1968 or 69. I still have it, and it is in excellent condition. I thank my father for telling me to take care of my equipment.


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Post 08 Nov 2020, 19:39 • #23 
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Joined: 08/03/14
Posts: 945
Location: central AR
Wright/McGill Champion 8 1/2’ for 7
Line. Paired with a Bronson Royal, it was a bluegill killer with live bait for years before I got interested in fly fishing and learned to cast in the air lol. Still have them both but the reel spindle is so loose that it sits on a shelf. Haven’t fished the rod in many years either.


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Post 08 Nov 2020, 20:09 • #24 
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Joined: 08/15/10
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Location: Elizabethtown & Germania, PA
I bought a yellow Shakespeare at our town's sporting goods store with my grass-cutting money. It was 8 or 8.5 feet and probably a 7 weight. Paired it with a red South Bend reel and a level line.


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Post 08 Nov 2020, 23:22 • #25 
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Joined: 02/23/11
Posts: 237
Location: Tulsa, OK
Some type of Eagle Claw rod back when I was 9 years old and I think a trigger auto-rewind reels. I had absolutely no idea how to fish with it with first problem of how to attach leader to the fly line (not many fly fishermen in small town Oklahoma back in the day) - I believe I used one of the little eye screws attached to the end of the fly line.

I remember getting it early one Christmas and trying to rig it up, then begging my granddad to take me out to a local pond. Casting was extremely poor as as you’d expect but I surprised us both catching several bluegills in ice cold water as the overhead clouds were spitting sleet. Biggest mystery was what interested me in fly fishing in the first place as literally no one fished with fly rods in the area at the time.


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