Hello, thank you for visiting my profile page where I am posting some of the many rods, reels and books that I wish to sell. I am trying to reduce my collection to my primary rods that I collect and so my plan is to reduce my collection by at least 50% or sell about 200 rods in the next year or two. That means I'll be selling all my Leonard, Payne, Young, Powell, Granger, Heddon, South Bend, Shakespeare and many more fine bamboo rods from production to custom rod makers. I have many Grangers and even more Heddons including #35, #50, 1000 as well as short 7' Grangers and Phillipsons.

Please note that I usually only go to the post office once a week, so please be patient on your delivery. My P.O. is so busy I have to wait in line 30-45 minutes each time which is why I don't go there more often.

I also have many new and collectible books that I will be selling. The new books will be priced at around 40-50% below retail. I have a few books such as Forgotten Flies and Rare and Unusual books by Smookler that I will be selling and I have a ton of flyfishing guide books, tying books and of course rod history and rodmaking books. I also have hundreds of books on rock climbing, mountaineering and climbing guide books. I also have an autographed magazine that was signed by Sir. Edmund Hillary a few months after his successful summit of Mt. Everest that will be put up for sale as well. Dude... I have a lot of stuff to sell! I also have technical climbing gear, summit packs, crampons, ice axes and rock climbing gear. Some new, some used... I'm getting too old to climb anything interesting... anything I can still climb today, I probably already climbed it... I've rockclimbed all over California and places between Los Angeles to Devils Tower, Wyoming but I haven't gotten off the ground in over 5 years so I might also be selling my personal climbing gear as well as much as I hate to think about that... Growing old sucks...

BFR Collector Gathering
I will be creating a mailing list so that when I post a few new important items, I will notify everyone on the email list. No, you won't get bombarded by me, but I'd shoot for a email sent out about once a month. So if you want to be added to my Bamboo Rod/Fly Fishing Gear For Sale List, shoot me an email and give me your email address and your full name, city, state and zip code. Why the location info? I'm thinking bamboo fly rod collectors need a gathering just like the Rodmakers, Reel, Lure collectors have... I'm in Los Angeles and wondering if we held a BFR gathering in Las Vegas in the winter, would you be interested in attending? Of course I'd rather do it in L.A. but in Vegas, perhaps the Sig. Others will want to go with you and Vegas has plenty of things to do besides talk cane. We could do a block of rooms say at the Tuscany Suites which have huge rooms so we can set up displays in our rooms like how the NFLCC people do it. Anyone else want to help organize this gathering? I'm thinking Mid-December or early January. Feedback please.

Shakespeare New Diana #1233 - 7.5' 2/2 all full length. Agate stripping guide, 6 snakes. Being researched right now, price not determined yet.

Unmarked High Grade Rod 9' 3/1 $200
This rod is a top quality classic rod made by one of the premier makers. Either F.E. Thomas, Thomas & Edwards, Ed Payne, H.L. Leonard or maybe George Varney. I'm pretty sure it's by FE Thomas but I'm not certain. I'll have photos up in a few days. All full length, full intermediates, all NS fittings, Varney type reel seat, Thomas/Payne/Leonard type ferrules... This one has me stumped.

Unmarked Quad BFR 8.5' 3/1 Project Rod $200
Description: Unmarked Quad 8.5' 3/1 project rod. This rod needs a full restoration and scarfing of tip.
Maker: No Makers Mark
Model:
Length: 8.5'
Sections/Tips: 34.5" butt & mid, 25" tip
Est. Line Wt: 7-8wt
Line Guides: All missing
Stripping Guide: Chrome
Grip: Square Grip
Windings: Yellow/Black Jasper poor shape
Bamboo/Varnish: Varnish Flakey.
Reelseat: All aluminum brown anodized screw downlocking
Markers Mark: none
Ferrules: Brass squared up ferrules.
Bag/Tube: None.

Condition: This rod is in poor condition. If you are a rod makers, this could be a great project rod. Maybe build a second tip with a PMQ 2 strip.
History: I've owned this one a long time and I was going to build new 2 strip tips. Just too many projects, not enough time.
Misc: Photos on request
Price: $200
Terms: Paypal & Postal Money Orders Only. No Foreign Sales, sorry unless willing to pay for Express Mail s/h. Paypal welcome but add 3% to cover PP fees.
Shipping/Handling: $20.00 Shipping/handling/insurace and shipped via US Priority Air Mail, Insured.
Other Terms: 7 day inspection, money back guarantee (s/h costs excluded)

Darrell Tag #3044


3wt Orvis Deluxe Impregnated 7.5' 2 Piece Two Tips! $650

This rod was built April 12, 1965 and built by George Reid and/or Calvin Skinner. According to the Orvis database, this rod weighs 3.25 ounces 4005x serial
number. This rod comes with two full length tips. This rod is complete with the original bag and labeled tube. This is a light line rod and will probably cast a 3 wt or a 4 wt. I just weighed the rod and it came in at 3.16 oz. 12/64th Ferrule. This will be an awesome trout rod!

This rod is being sold is a 2 piece, 2 tip rod, all full length. This rod looks very much like Wes Jordan's personal trout rod. Great deal!


This rod has seen honest use but should give a lifetime of fishing pleasure. I haven't fished this rod, but this is one of their most
popular tapers. Price is $650 OBO plus $25 s/h/i. 5 day inspection return policy. I will also include one of my bamboo polishing cloths. Local pickup in Los Angeles welcome, otherwise Money Order or Paypal accepted.





Goodwin Granger Aristocrat 9' 3/2 Bamboo Fly Rod For Sale $395



Description:
Goodwin Granger Bamboo Fly Rod. This is a fishing rod to be fished or
collected. It is in near Mint condition. The varnish, metal work and
bamboo all looks unfished. These photos DO NOT DO JUSTICE TO THIS BEAUTIFUL ROD!

Maker: Goodwin Granger

Model: GA-9053

Length: 9' assembled. Each full length section is approx. 36.5"

Sections/Tips: 3/2

Est. Line Wt: 6wt DT or HDH or D according to catalogs

# Line Guides: 9 snakes, tip top, stripper

Type Stripper: Perfection chrome
Bamboo: 3x3 nodes, beautiful brown tone cane. No delamination.
Reel Seat: Nickel Silver - Late era GG with the screw-lock seat with the two patent numbers

Ferrules: Nickel Silver. All have a perfect fit, no clicking when casting.
Silk Windings: Excellent original Tan Rice's silk windings
Varnish: Smooth, hard looks perfect.
Handle: Cork is looks unused, no hook digs like many Grangers as Grangers do not come with a hook keeper.

Bag/Tube: Original cloth bag, aluminum unlabeled tube with cap

Condition: I did not do any polishing to the metal or varnish. It doesn't need it!
All sections original full length, as close to Mint condition as you will find.

History: The 9' Grangers were one of the most popular rod lengths for fishing.

Misc: The Granger Aristocrat model is one of the top grades of Granger.

Price: $450.00 REDUCED TO $395.00

Fundamentals of Building a Bamboo Fly-Rod G. Maurer SC 1st Edition Brand New - $80

Fundamentals of Building a Bamboo Fly-Rod G. Maurer HC 1st Edition Brand New - $150

Fundamentals of Building a Bamboo Fly-Rod G. Maurer HC 1st Edition, Autographed Brand New - $200

Signed Limited Edition - Fishing Rods by Divine - Michael Sinclair #25 of 300 Signed Ltd. 1st Edition $500
If you collect Divine bamboo fly rods, this is the book you need and at only 300 copies printed, this is rarer than any of the Divine rods... Price includes s/h. Mint unread condition. I think the binding is leather and gold embossed front, no DJ as standard.

Classic Rods and Rodmakers Marty Keane 1st Edition $400
These books have sold for as much as $560 in the past. This is a excellent copy with a fine DJ. One of the must own books if you are a serious bamboo fly rod collector.

Signed Limited Edition - Fishing Bamboo - John Gierach Signed Limited Edition $95
Mint condition. I removed the shrink wrap to confirm the signatures of Gierach and Glenn Wolff. This is one of 1750 copies. The book that perhaps started the bamboo fly rod revolution. Slipcased, glassine dust jacket.

Heddon: Rods With the Fighting Heart - Michael Sinclair - SC 1st Ed. $85
Mint Condition, un-opened, unread book. An ebay auction just closed for this book for $108.00. Click Here to check it out

Colorado Classic Cane - Michael Sinclair & Dick Spurr Hard Cover 1st Edition $375
Must Have Reference For Granger or Phillipson Bamboo Collectors This is the single and most complete source of information reference book for the collector of Granger, Phillipson, Arend, Clark, DeBell, South Creek bamboo fly rods. For the Granger and Phillipson collector, it is loaded with information, catalog info, history, photos and illustrations all packed in an 8.5" x 11" book with 168 pages. Colorado Classic Cane 1st Ed. Soft Cover Sold Out Hard Cover $375 - Mint, unopened, unread book.

1939 Montague Rod and Reel Catalog Reprint PLUS H-I 1949 Rod & Reel Reprint $25.00 for both.

EF Payne Corporate Records SC Reprint Book PLUS 3 Catalog Reprint $35

The Angler's Workshop Letcher Lambuth 1979 Limited 1st Edition $245.00

Book Description: Champoeg Press, 1979. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall, Champoeg Press, Portland, Oregon,1979 First Edition, First Printing, Limited to 1250 Numbered Copies [#658], 217pp, introduction by Steve Raymond, introduction by Roderick Haig-Brown, illustrated with numerous photgraphs, and drawings. Hardbound. Very Good+ to Fine Condition ; No Jacket [As Issued].

The Fine Bamboo Fly Rod - Stuart Kirkfield 1986 Signed 1st Edition $250.00
Mylar cover over excellent DJ and Excellent book.

The Bamboo Rod and How to Build It - Claude Kreider 1951 1st Edition, 1st Printing $85.00
Fine HC book in Good DJ with ft flap slightly clipped, but not the printed price of $2.95.

Amateur Rodmaking Perry Frazer 1947 Edition $35.00
Nice clean hard copy with excellent DJ with mylar DJ protector. Original edition was printed in 1914.

Atlantic Salmon Flies & Fishing by Joseph Bates First Edition $85.00
Book Description: Stackpole Books, Pennsylvania, 1970. HC Cloth. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Milton C. Weiler (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This book is bound in a blue cloth with an illustration of a fisherman in black on the front board and lettering on the spine with a salmon colored backing. This book shows a little edge wear on the spine but otherwise is in very clean and solid condition. I see no signs of foxing. The dust jacket has been placed in a protective plastic sleeve. A very nice copy.

Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing Joseph Bates, Jr. - Signed Limited Edition $325.00
Book Description: Stackpole Company, 1966. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Slipcase Condition: Fine. with UV protective cover on slipcase plate. True first Limited edition of STREAMER FLY TYING AND FISHING by Col. Joseph Bates. #570 of only 600 copies printed, signed by Col. Bates. Special Two Toned
binding. Tipped in Color Frontis. This copy is FINE, in a Fine Slipcase. This book was bates' follow-up to the book "Streamer Fly Fishing in Fresh and Salt Water". It contains 359 pages of information with 9 pages of index. 119 patterns in full color and authentic details on dressing, choosing, using over 300 streamers & bucktails. Contents: Why fish take streamers; Streamers, simple and otherwise; How to select streamers; How to fish streamers in fast water; How to fish streamers
in slack water; Western salt water streamer fishing; Eastern salt water streamer fishing; Southern salt water streamer fishing; Notes on types and dressings; The history and dressing of famous patterns. Many color
plates, tying instructions, and fly patterns. Signed by Author. Penciled old price and ex-owners small address label from New Zealand.

A Modern Dry-Fly Code Vincent C. Marinaro - First Edition $95.00
Book Description: New York. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1950. First Edition. 8vo. 269 pp. Text illustrations by Pearce Bates. Probably the most influential American fishing book of the mid-twentieth century. Bound in dark blue cloth with yellow titles. Decorated end papers. Pictorial dust jacket. Book in good in a fair dust jacket with a few tears and a bit of the DJ stuck to the front of the book.

Antique Fishing Reels - 1985 Steven Vernon 1st Edition $40.00
A must have book for the fishing reel collector. Book in Fine condition, no DJ. I have sold several copies of this book for $165-$185 with the DJ! No DJ on this one gives you an affordable working copy to use.

Trout Madness - Robert Traver 1960 1st Edition $50.00
Book Description: St. Martin's Press, NY, 1960. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo., 178pp. .Waterstains to colored endpapers causing pale offset to jacket interior, two tape-repaired closed tears inside jacket, a few small chips at jacket spine-ends, Very Good/Good. Traver's books are becoming hard to find, partly because people in his native Upper Peninsula aren't offering them for sale. He was something of a local hero due to
Anatomy of a Murder and his service on the Michigan Supreme Court.

Good Flies by John Gierach- HC 1st Ed. 1st Printing $50
The Lyons Press. 2000, 2000. 'As new' condition in an 'as new' dustwrapper.1st ed edition. Favourite trout patterns and how they got that way. B/w illustrations.

Good Flies by John Gierach - Signed Limited 1st Edition $125
Book Description: Lyons Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2000. Hard Cover. Book Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Limited. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. One of 500 copies of the Limited Edition, signed by the Author, and the publisher, cloth bound and housed in a slipcase. A New copy, still in the original shrink-wrap!! *** (Book Description) This intimate glimpse behind John Gierach's vise focuses on the trout flies he has found most successful and how he ties them. There are chapters on how he developed as a fly tyer - from being a hopeless tinkerer who tried every pattern there was to settling on a large handful of favorite patterns that now catch most of his trout.. Throughout, the book is punctuated with fishing stories and observations on days astream as well as days at his vise, all in Gierach's inimitable style.. rambling a little, following this thread and that, always full of wit and deft experience and that special down-home style that has made him America's favorite fly-fishing author. Brand New Book!. I had to open it to confirm if it's limited to 500 copies and yes indeed 500 limited edition.

Meisselbach 372 Bakelite and German Silver Fly Reel $225.00 - Excellent condition. 3.325" OD, Narrow spool .66" inside width. Green bakelite knob. NS pillars and foot. Circa 1927. 5.04 oz. weight. Musical clicker is wonderful! Tag 3040

Meisselbach 372 Bakelite and German Silver Fly Reel with Rare AGATE Line Guide $350.00 - Excellent condition. RH Retrieve Only. 3.325" OD, Narrow spool .66" inside width. 5.42 oz. weight. Brown agate line guide. Green bakelite knob. NS pillars and foot. Circa 1927. Musical clicker is wonderful! Tag 2749

Meisselbach 370 Bakelite and German Silver Fly Reel $250.00 - Excellent condition. LH or RH. 3.325" OD, Narrow spool .66" inside width. Green bakelite knob. NS pillars and foot. 4.27 oz. Circa 1927 Tag 3042

Mitchell 486 Salt Water Spinning Reel Made in France. Marked High Speed. Needs a cleaning a lube job but seems to operate correctly. $40 plus $8 s/h

Sport King Model 67 Fly Reel $40.00 - Made by Montague/Ocean City for Wards, this is a surprisingly modern and usable fly reel! 5.14 oz. Handles a 3-4wt line. Smooth and powerful adjustable drag. LH or RH wind by moving line guard, currently set at RH wind. No clicker. VG+ condition. See catalog info. Click Here. Tag 2780

Rare Silk Thread - I have hundreds of colors of silk thread, virtually all the colors on the Sinclair thread chart. If you can't find a color, chances are good I may have it. While looking for some thread, I came across a few very rare colors.

Green/Black Jasper - Original Holland size 00, 50 yd spool. $120 The #1 hardest color to find on the planet. It took me 8 years
Yellow/Black Jasper - Gudebrod size A, 50 yd spool $80
Black/White Nylon Jasper - Gudebrod size A foam spools $12
B/W Silk Jasper - Rices size 00, $20/50 yds normally respooled onto normal wood spools
B/W Silk Jasper - Gudebrod size E, 50 yds $25 Very scarce for S/W rods
Rainbow 5 color Nylon - Gudebrod size A, 50 yds $15 - also 2 spools of Herters
Rainbow 5 color Nylon - Rices size 00 50 yds $35 - ONE spool to find this thread
Orange/Black Silk Jasper - Rices size 00, $20/50 yds normally respooled onto normal wood spools
DISCOUNT SALE on Brand New Hock Tools Plane Blades

These genuine Hock Tools plane blades are all wrapped in their original sealed paper wrappings. Bamboo fly rod makers love these blades! Sale limited to stock on hand. Buy 3 blades or more, I'll pay the s/h.

High Carbon Steel: Stock # Retail Sale Price

1 3/8" wide with 7/16" slot width #BL138 $32.00 $28 US Stanley 60
1 5/8" wide with 7/16" slot width #BL162 $35.00 $32 US Stanley 9 1/2 One Left
1 3/8" wide with 5/8" slot width #BW138 $32.00 $28 English 60
1 5/8" wide with 5/8" slot width #BW162 $35.00 $32 English Stanley 9 1/2 qty 2

A2 Cryo Block Plane Blades:
1 3/8" wide with 7/16" slot width #BLA138 $45.00 $42 US Stanley 60
1 5/8" wide with 5/8" slot width #BWA162 $47.00 $42 English Stanley 9 1/2

$3.50 s/h first blade $5.50 max for 2 or more blades. Hock charges $8.00 s/h, so you can save big here. The blades listed are all that I have available. If you don't see it, I don't have it.

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