Aroner Spring Creek Special Fly Rod 7'6" 3/2 #4

Aroner Spring Creek Special Fly Rod 7'6" 3/2 #4An Aroner Spring Creek Special fly rod, 7'6" 3 piece 2 tip rod built for a #4 line. Mint, uncast condition. This rod appears to be almost untouched since it left the shop 15 years ago. The Special model is wrapped with olive main wraps, brown olive intermediates, and signature wraps that are a mixture of olive and brown olive. 3 up node pattern construction with all nodes carefully pressed with the technique that I learned originally from Sam Carlson.

including by yours truly

with darker brown edges on the keeper and male ferrule wraps

the "Permit"

The reelseat has Payne's spanish cedar spacer with an up-locking screw lock boasting the "sold by Abercrombie and Fitch"stamp

I don't often admit to professional jealousy but this is the best rod I have ever seen from a maker who recently passed from the scene

and this biography sheds much new light on their achievements

with padded pouch and printed material

Reel seat has some areas of varnish wear

Cap and ring design and all hardware is oxidized

Whitcomb" and 3 flats right "by Hap Mills" and 4 flats right "8' Duracane" and 5 flats right "1985"

The butt female ferrule also has a few hook induced varnish chips missing

Rare in this condition indeed