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Article: The Home-Built Rod: Want the perfect fishing stick? Build it yourself.(Projects)
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- Field & Stream (West ed.)
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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Byline: John Merwin
The late John Voelker, better known under his Robert Traver pen name as the author of books including Trout Madness and Anatomy of a Murder, refused to count the fishing rods in his closet. "If you know exactly how many rods you have," he once told me, "then you don't have enough of them."
I think of that often when stowing gear for a weekend trip: one rod for this, another for that, and pretty soon I've lost count. One or two of those, however, I always stash with extra care because I've built them myself. Factory rods can be replaced, but my home-builts are unique and invested with sweat.
Rod building is enormously ...