So I am looking for a classic looking rod to pair with my Bogdan 00.

I like bamboo rod such as this Leonard style, with longer detachable fighting butt and rubber button.

There are a few graphite rods, like some custom or early Orvis, still had this style, before becoming to those very short all cork butt on the 7/8wt 9~10ft rods today.

Besides bamboo, I am open to glass also. I'd like to know if there is any glass rod built in this classic style? Brand? Model? that I could check them out on the 2nd hand market.

Thanks.

I had the 9'3" Berkley Para/Metric with a fighting butt. I've had a bunch of Para/Metrics and this is the only one I didn't like.

Hope eliminating choices helps limit the field.

I also remember having a Heddon with a fighting butt, but can't remember a darn thing about it, except it was pretty. May have been a Black Beauty. Just saying it does exist.

Barry

The FF9310 from Fenwick fits the bill.

Giogio named one of several Fenwicks that fit the bill. They were developed in west coast steelheading as that fishery was restored, but Atlantic salmon fishermen took to them as well. In fiberglass, any number of 8 or 9 weight rods can be easily fitted with a fighting butt. About the time steelhead and salmon fishing redeveloped (aided by fisheries programs and the 1970s Clean Water Act), graphite came on the scene, and anglers quickly took to 8 and 9 weight models, which were easier for makers to develop with fewer disconcerting faults than lighter line rods (such as easily broken tips, or tips too stiff that risked breaking fine tippets.) This is not a knock on either type, just the state of development of the time. Guys like Ted Williams were happy fishing Atlantic salmon with the same Shakespeare heavyweights, no fighting butt, they might have used for smallmouths. Some dusted off a bamboo rod from decades before. But in that decade, development went to graphite, and guys who stuck with 'glass built their own on blanks sourced from major suppliers--Fenwick yellow, Lamiglas, Fisher and a few others like the Sceptre. The choice of a fighting butt was up to the builder, and it was--still is--easy to source or modify a reel seat to accept a removable fighting butt. So if you do choose glass, you can widen your choice and install a fighting butt if you want--about as archfly shows above.

During the early period when Orvis was rolling their own glass, a 9 foot 9 wt 2/1 was made, albeit extremely rarely, with a full grip, aluminum and wood uplocking reel seat, and the locking mechanism was an extension butt that was threaded and advanced as the uplocker, I can provide pictures if needed, very cool rod, Todd

Something like this?