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What ever happened to Five Rivers blanks?
Posted by: Troy Ketela (---.dsl.bell.ca)
Date: May 20, 2014 05:10PM

Had a bunch of my gear stolen while fishing the past weekend, and one rod that I lost was built on an FT 905 blank. This rod sat in my basement for years and years because I never found a way that I could effectively cast it until last fall when I stuck an ultra fast full sink 7wt line on it. The rod then became my lake fishing sinking line darling - it just honked out line, and actually felt pretty responsive with a fish on the end.

It doesn't appear that Dan Craft carries Five Rivers blanks any more, which is a shame. I have a slew of rods I built on a variety of their blanks back in the early-mid 2000's.

Any one know what happened or know of where I might find an FT 905?

Thanks

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Re: What ever happened to Five Rivers blanks?
Posted by: rick sodke (---.pmc-sierra.bc.ca)
Date: May 20, 2014 07:13PM

His website looks to be a very rough work in progress. I would suggest calling him but there's no phone number.
I would be surprised if he stopped selling FT blanks (if he is still in business).

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Re: What ever happened to Five Rivers blanks?
Posted by: Spencer Phipps (---.war.clearwire-wmx.net)
Date: May 21, 2014 12:57AM

Dan Craft 541 255-3284.

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Re: What ever happened to Five Rivers blanks?
Posted by: Spencer Phipps (---.war.clearwire-wmx.net)
Date: May 21, 2014 12:57AM

Dan Craft's site is back up.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/21/2014 07:16PM by Spencer Phipps.

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