Unknow rod

[Finger_Mullet]

My father-in-law came home dragging a surf rod he picked up at a yard sale 300 miles from the ocean. He paid $25.00 for it.

It is a spinning rod and is heavy as crap. By today's standards.

It is a putrid yellow color with wire guides. It is wrapped with a brown thread. Nothing fancy. The grip is brown rubber. There is a silver sticker that probably once told the name of the road and the other vital info. The writing has pretty much been worn completely off. It is just a shinny silver sticker now. I don;t remember if it is 11' or 12'. I just know it is stiff. Real stiff.

I fished with this this for a year or 2. I caught my biggest drum to date on it. I quit using it when I upgraded equipment. I would post a picture but it is currently at the beach house, 300 miles away.

Anyone have any idea what kind of rod this is? I know a pic would help but I don't have one available.

Darin

[hokieboy]

With it being yellow it could be an eagle claw. I know there bigger rods are this color and i believe they have brown handles as well. Not 100% positive though...

[JAM]

Old Glass Lamiglass or a Fenwick.. Is the tip as big around as your pointer finger??? JAM

[Ryan Y]

I was thinking an old sears and robuck, or Kmart rod.

[old linesides]

Many years ago , about 1976 I believe , I was working in Ocean City MD in a carnival stand . A young girl came up to me and asked me if my name was Mike . I said yes , who wants to know ? She told me a sob story about her boyfriend was locked up and she had a surf rod for sale so she could try and bail him out . I said well I'll look at it , go get it . A few minutes later she shows up with this 2-piece , yellow blank with the old wire guides and the bigger 2 guides folded down to make them paralell to the blank ! Now I was a pretty good fisherman at that point in my life but the novelty alone made me feel interested . Plus , it had an old greenie on it . As I remember , I paid $15.00 for the whole rig and although it never saw much use , I did catch some fish on it . As I remember it was a South Bend Rod , I could be wrong though .

[Finger_Mullet]

I am pretty sure it is not a K-mart rod or an eagle claw.

The big eye folds up and it is a 2 piece rod. I quit using it because it was so heavy and hard to load. I never have throw 8 with it. It does not handle 3-4 very well.

When I caught the drum on it I was using a 3 oz and a 4 oz together. It threw it well.

It is a nice rod. I thought if it was a good fiber glass road, a Squidder would look nice on it. I would have to have it rewrapped for a casting rod.

Darin
Darin

[Oyster]

I had a rod back in the early seventies that had a fold-up gathering guide. The rod was built by a company called Olympic. They were cheap imported rods and the only ones that I ever saw with the folding guide. Mine was a 13’, 3-piece rod that I left in the front rod rack for the trip back home to Richmond one time and rubbed half tip off on the ceiling of the Hampton Rhoads tunnel. I fixed the tip but never used it much because it was such a loose sloppy crappy toad of a rod. This rod was gold colored and has the word Olympic stamped on the side of the folding guide.

[bmcox86]

i have one i got at a yard sale for 2 bucks, same description, its a MAGNULEX ROD, made in Miami Flordia, i still use it sometimes, kinda worn out though