Clemens Rod Collection

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Re: Clemens Rod Collection

Posted by: John Wright (---.om.om.cox.net)

Date: January 19, 2024 11:15AM

Wow,

His first book was the reason I started building rods. I joined a "book of the month" club back in the middle '70s and this was one of the books I received. I was fascinated. I have been fishing since I was 5. My Dad taught all of us how to fish and we loved it. I was in Grad School at the time and reading this book was a source of solace after a day or two of studying. I was a young Captain in the AF at the time with a family and not a lot of expendable income. But I did have a few old rods that would benefit from new wraps on the guides. So that's how I started building, by re-wrapping the guides on an old spinning rod. I still have that rod and the wraps are still just fine.

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