From: (Greg Pavlov)

Back about 40, 50, 60 years ago, chances are good that
Dan would be living in a small town. The local hardware
store would also be the local tackle shop, and each
Christmas it would display a fly rod for sale, and lots of
daydreams would be conjured by folks ogling it through
the plate glass. Someone would eventually buy it and
use it and catch fish with it, and not give a damn whether
it was fast or slow, was short or long, or built on a progressive
blank, or be otherwise imbued with some other characteristic
of technical prowess.

Been there, done that. 1953, Aubuchon Hardware in Ware, MA. 9' no name
fiberglass rod GBG line. Caught a ton of fish with it.......terrible rod by
today's standards.


George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller