Halstead 8'9" lt. salmon rod
~George Halstead 8'9" light salmon rod, 3pc/2 tips. Halstead rods don't come up very often and this is a particularly nice one if you fish salmon with a floating line. It is a smooth, powerful rod with a WF7 line and the 8'9" length is the same that both I and Mario Wojnicki arrived at as the ideal length for a light salmon or steelhead rod. As is the case more often than not with Halstead rods, this one is unmarked as to maker, but with a faded "Angler's Cove" in script above the grip. It remains in at least very good-excellent condition with good varnish showing only the slightest sign of age. Two or three wraps could use a light overcoat of varnish as they are just a touch 'dry', very easily done (I would gladly do it for the new owner at no charge). Perfection stripping guide and American pattern tungsten steel snake guides. The detachable fighting butt is housed in an unusual and very neat way as seen in one of the photographs; it is screwed into the top cap of the rod tube, so hangs down inside the tube above the rest of the rod, something I have never seen before. Of course Halstead was the maker of Payne locking hardware for years and of Gillum fighting butts, etc. so he really know his way around machining this type of rod part. It is no surprise that he would come up with such a unique way of holding the fighting butt in the tube. All in all, a very attractive rod from this unique maker. If I were in the market for a light salmon rod, I would buy it myself. In original bag and tube. SOLD
