fiberglass spey rod?

[kimosabe]

are fiberglass spey rods a thing of the past?:beathead:
would casting a glass rod all day make me a candidate for shoulder surgery? :)

[Red Shed]

My first two hander was the "junkyard spey". It was made from an 8 1/2' Fenwick yellow fiberglass fly rod and the butt section was made from the bottom half of a Fenwick fiberglass "Flippin Stick". I don't remember it being all that hard on the shoulders.

When I first started spey casting I looked at many fiberglass two handers because I had very little money. Now there are a lot of great graphite rods in the lower price points.

[fredaevans]

Interesting you should ask this question. Not a fiber glass fan (nothing against the product) but now if they put one out in "S-Glass." Now that could be the 'cat's meow!':thumb:

[Salmo_g]

Yeah, I think fiberglass Spey rods are a thing of the past. None were sold in the U.S. that I was aware of, but I heard they were sold in the UK and Europe. A glass Spey rod would be heavier and less powerful than a low end graphite one, and the cost difference wouldn't be far enough apart to give the glass rod any favor. This is the golden age of Spey casting - so many great rods at a range of price points, there's something for everyone.

Sg

[Les Johnson]

Some years ago when I was fishing in Finland and Norway on the Teno and Ut Joki river systems there was a large group of German anglers in the camp where I was staying. These guys used fiberglass two-hand rods up to 18-feet long as I recall. They carried huge old 4-1/2" wide drum Hardy Perfect reels and double taper lines. They cast these huge rods overhand and employed brass tube flies up to 55mm long to reach into the deep, fast runs of the Teno. If one of those tubes would have hit the caster it would been like be shot with a 7mm magnum slug.
These fiberglass rods were so big around at the butt that they were wound with twine for handles rather than being fitted with cork rings. I don't know if these rods are still in use as a lot of them were pretty old when I saw them.
Les Johnson