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Panfish74
Post 07 Dec 2022, 12:21 • #1 
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Heddon Golden Mark 50 8543 - Xmas gift from my father. Excellent condition. BEAUTY. What a find. What a gift.








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springer1
Post 07 Dec 2022, 13:45 • #2 
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Great! Beautiful, nice going, I hope you get to fish with it. I have and fish with the 7' version; its glass ferrule requires periodic attention with beeswax on its tip to prevent "clicking".
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paramount51
Post 07 Dec 2022, 14:39 • #3 
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Very nice indeed!
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Labrax
Post 07 Dec 2022, 16:06 • #4 
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I put an offer on one of these on the auction site a couple months ago - and kept watching it, but had a lot of overlap in that length and line weight, but it was a 4pc and a 7wt. That one you received is beautiful and a lovely gift. How does it cast? Is it marked as an 8wt? Do you think it casts a 7wt well or is it a true 8wt?
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the hersh
Post 07 Dec 2022, 16:21 • #5 
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Is that the 50th anniversary model?I have the 8wt 8' model.Never fished or cast.I bought 10 Heddon glass flyrods in a year.Garage sales flea markets a bait shop that carried vintage gear and a couple online.Heddons and Wonderods are fairly common around here.Some like your example are just beautiful.I have a few that have never been cast.Have a soft spot for the Great Lakes makers.
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Brian Shaffer
Post 09 Dec 2022, 08:05 • #6 
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Excellent to see! Another beautiful carrot!
Merry Christmas to you - and me.
See you on the stream!



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the hersh
Post 09 Dec 2022, 09:53 • #7 
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Brian they are true glow sticks.But to me they seem fragile but I know they are not.The ones I fish are strong rods able to horse largemouth out of the thickest weeds.My favorite moment in fishing is swing the bulge under thick slop homing in on a weed less bass bug .I have broken more than one graphite rod but never a glass rod.
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