I have an old 9 wt Fenwick fly rod that has a reel seat with an extendable fighting butt (the kind you can screw out and screw back in as needed). The existing reel seat and extendable butt are no longer functional and I need to replace them. I have searched a bit through suppliers on the site and elsewhere for a replacement and have come up empty. Does anyone still make this type of reel seat/extendable butt combination for fly rods??

Thanks for your help.

What is wrong with it ? can it be repaired

Bill - willierods.com

I bought some about a year ago. American Tackle has them in their catalogue.

cheers
Harold

Yes, there are a number of them. I think the correct term is: "removable fighting butt" rather than extendable. Many of the sponsors on the left carry the combination of reel seats and butts.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/09/2010 05:57PM by Phil Erickson.

I figured that was what it was. if the bolt still goes into the nut -in the seat- you can just make another butt out of whatever the butt is made of. Cork or whatever.

if need be find a bolt and fit it into the nut - in the seat - and do the same.

Why take the seat off and buy a complete set up.

Bill - willierods.com

Sorry folks, I had a family emergency I needed to deal with out of town over that past 1.5 days ...I'm back at the screen again.

Bill, unfortunately it is not repairable in its current form...there was some "creative" work done to make it look functional but the guy I am fixing it for couldn't get it to work properly...when I took it apart, all it was was a mass of masking tape and epoxy that really only made it removable, not extendable.

I'm not talking about a removable butt, (i.e. not like the American Tackle example), the system I'm trying to describe is a more complicated 5 inch piece of 7/16 inch aluminum bar with a 1 inch cork butt piece at one end. There are threads at the far end and another set of threads just ahead of the cork fighting butt piece. When fully screwed in all you see is the cork fighting butt. But if you want to extend it, you unthread the cork butt, extend the aluminum bar until it hits the second set of threads and then it tightens against an inner grommet that is fastened to the aluminum end. When not needed, the whole piece of aluminum and the grommet hides inside the reel seat. I recall one from a rod I repaired a year or so ago...the reel seat is sort of in two pieces...half fits over the blank and fits underneath the last three inches or so of the cork handle...the other half is the actual reel seat and is the part that the extendable butt hides in.

The one I did a year ago was for a 12 wt tarpon rod...maybe this is a tarpon thing...we don't get a lot of tarpon in Canada...maybe the tarpon guys out there can figure out what I am trying to describe.

If you can recommend any specific suppiers, I would appreciate it.

Thanks

John