I have a Broom stick fly rod that I crafted. I built it, patterned from the rod JC had made.
It needs a 10 wt line (so said JC so is what I have always had on it), and almost any reel. It can not be cast unless one does a double haul. No help from the rod at all. It is a broom stick. Once one gets the casting down on it, one can easily cast a real fly rod.
The reason JC made his was to teach the DH. The best I ever saw it cast for distance was by Hans W
who put it out to 74 feet as I remember. I can on a good day get mine cast out to around 50 feet.
Harry Boyd cast mine down at the Sow Bug one year and got it out to around 60 feet.
It is built on a real broom stick which is multi piece, It takes down and screws together.
I do not have any pic of mine at this time. If any are interested I could take some.
I have actually fished mine and caught fish. Not a fun rod to fish at all.

Denny