No I will have sone time hopefully this weekend to take a look at it. Do these rods age well? Would you fish it or just put it in the college room? I live in the heart of steelhead country but must if my steelheading is with two handers. I’m a little nervous about hooking up with chrome on this old beauty. That’s assuming I can solve the ferrule issue.
So I cleaned the inside of the ferrule with alcohol and q-tips as well as the male part again with a magic eraser and alcohol and now I believe it’s fitting as it should. The gap is now 3/8 of an inch. The ferrule fits all the way to the gray mark I put in the male side in the pic I attached here.
I felt confident in testing her out once I got the ferrule to fit so I threw on a St. Aidan and a Cortland Peach WF9 and the rod casts beautifully! Very impressive. A keeper for sure!
Thanks for all of the advice everyone on the thread here!