Aroner 7'6" 3/2 #4 Spring Creek "Full Flex"

Aroner 7'6" 3/2 #4 Spring Creek "Full Flex"It's no secret that most of the rods I build are typically modern variations on established Catskill tapers, designs which couple crisp actions with fine tips to produce maximum casting accuracy. Over the past few years however, I've been quietly experimenting with a deeper flexing action, one that goes farther down to the swell and which is meant to create an action which seems to "cast itself" without being excessively slow. That is the design

Very powerful medium action

3 up node pattern construction

A handsome Maxwell Leonard 39DF-5 from the early Maxwell period

An excellent Gary Howells fly rod

Nice condition

May rose wraps with orange edges

A Stan Bogdan 00 Grilse Reel in great used condition

Wrapped yellow with black edges

Tom and his wife Gerri are an inspiration to us all

Materials are nickel silver

with Leonard making relatively few of these models

This rod is also finished out with Perfection black high-speed Steel guides and a rare and most beautiful Perfection stripper (not made for the past 50 yrs