When the weather cools down here in Texas I'll be fishing a 5 1 2' Heddon Mark 1. I've got an old Pflueger Supreme or a modern Ambassadeur 4600 to pair it up with. The Mark 1 has a nice bass action flex to it and isn't tippy at all.

I too found several old Fenwick, Heddon and other assorted fiberglass baitcaster and spinning blanks that I had purchased from a friend many years ago. I've built out a few of the blanks and restored a couple of the factory rods. Thoroughly enjoy using them at every opportunity.

Heddonist, we don't have a distinct baitcasting rod section, but I thought your information and query might get more attention in the "Another Spin . . ." section. Now and then, we have some great coverage of classic casting tackle. I don't know if there's a retro trend, but now that you rediscovered them in the closet, hope you will rediscover fishing with them and give some follow-up stories. You will have to look deeper in the closet for the Jitterbugs and River Runts.

For me it was the Cabela's catalog, which was all lure-making and rod-building back then. First rod and reel was Heddon light spinning tackle, which at 12-y-o caught trout in the Rockies, and a 3-lb smallie in Lake of the Ozarks.
Locally, we had Pico lures, made in Corpus, along with the equally famous Bingo lures.

Grew up with Jim Thomas Outdoors, local tv on Sunday afternoons, also my first link to fly fishing, and my first WondeRod fly rod at 16, which I made great use catching white bass and endemic river bass.

Growing up, I caught the most fish on a Pico Texas Trailer trolling rig with either a Pico Perch or Bomber up front and a Shyster spinner behind.
My first inshore rod was a 7' Berkley Tri-Sport matched with Mitchell 300, also for reservoir bass fishing - still have the reel, but like a dummy let the rod sell at a wifey's moving garage sale in 1999. Spanish macks on the jetties, including a few doubles, wore out the Mitchell.

Also lost in that garage sale, a Lunkerstick 2000, which I had bought in college to match a Millionaire 6H. My first graphite rod was a 7-1/2' telescoping blade Browning, which I used for inshore and surf, and still have. Surf fishing wore through the worm gear on the Millionaire in the 80s, and Daiwa didn't support the parts even though the reel was only about 5 or 6 years old then. That's when I discovered Lew's and never looked back. My late uncle was big on Lew's Speed Stik.
I'll tell you again guys, I've handled a lot of glass bass rods, and the best of them is Falcon Glass, which still turn up a couple of times/year on ebay.

Baldnobber, love those bladed bait rods.

Back in Detroit in the black and white TV days, it was the "Michigan Outdoors, Mort Neff Show" -- honest!-- every Thursday at 6:30 PM. Its still available on Youtube.

Heddonist

We built a bunch of rods on fenwicks blanks in early 1970s.
Like heddonist we used ca626 and ca624 blanks.most all on brown blanks.
The yellow blanks never got popular in our area.
Started using fenwick handles,but they were to easy to break and the ferrule was not locking and would allow the rod to turn and sometimes slip out
of the handle.
We started using browning handles and ferrules.
Most of the yellow rods built were on wright mcgill blanks.
My favorite spinning rod was built on ca684 blank with a 4,in.extension epoxied in the butt and a cork ring handle,and tape on reel.

not much, but has a lot of time to fish

We had access to yellow and brown fenwick blanks .This was early 70,s.
We had racks full of factory fenwick rods and blanks.
Casting,spinning and fly .
We did build a few yellow fly rods,but brown was 90% .
Most popular spinning rod was a casting rod blank with an extension
, epoxied in the butt . Ca684 with 4 in section glued in the butt .
The rod ended up being six feet. 16 cork rings for a Tennessee handle,
foulproof wire guides and a carboly tip.Great rod.
Most popular casting rod was ca624 &ca626 brown blank , carboly guides and tip,browning handle,5000c filled with 20lb stern and let's go bass fishing.

A year or so later Fuji guides took over.
Best thing that ever happened to fishing rods.
imho

We built the same rods with Fuji guides.
Those foulproof guides would line cut after a few good
trips and have to be replaced.
I've still got rods from that time with Fuji's that are like new.

That'll be a nice rod!