My finest friend, the late Art Carter wrote about this Jenkins rod in his book Sporting Craftsmen many years ago....it went something like "my friend has seriously used it and frankly abused it....". yes, I do alternate tips, I have waxed it infrequently, I have cast shot with it, I have double hauled big wet muddlers with it... dredged big nymphs with it. I have never turned it backwards to reel in a fish. It has never been refinished. No sets. Only one hook gouge in the double burgundy tip....just a little one. (I am older now and do not do any of these abusive things anymore). I fish hardy lightweight reels...nothing sounds like a Hardy when a good fish takes off..and they look like trout reels to me. I am confident that when I die my daughter will fish this rod. She is infatuated with Winston now. Plastic ones. I think she'll get over it. She did manage to settle in a place I like...
