I just picked up an Orvis rod and dont have a clue what I have here .
Is it old or not ?
Is it worth much more than I paid for it? (I got it at a thrift store for $2!!!)
This rod comes in an aluminum tube that looks like its been all over the world. The rod looks like its hardly been out of the tube (I mean this rod looks premo)!
Graphite 7 1/2 ’ 2 1/8 oz 6 wt.
There is no printing on the rod itself. The printing is on the butt cap.
The rod case is printed with the rod info also .
Any clues about this rod and its relative value?
(Same thrift store let a Fenwick {Fenglass} go for $2 and a Heddon {I think it was } go for $2. I met the guy who got them and he didnt even fly fish!!!
He said that both rods looked brand new!!!
I was told that the heddon was worth several hundred (or what ever it wsa ) was worth several hundred by an aquaintence who is an expert on Bamboo rods( who also missed on the Fen . and the Boo).
Story of my life , one day late and another dollar short.
I do think its cool that I scored a really nice looking orvis for $2!!!
Well it has to be worth more than $2…oh, what does it say on the butt cap perch? That might give some that know how to identify rods something to go on. Pics are helpful too.
Moose,
The cap also says" Orvis,7 1/2’ ,2 1/8 oz. (6) Graphite.
The rod is gray in color . The guides look like they are being held on by tape and not thread but upon close examination it is a tread wrap .
I tried taking photos but cant get very good resolution so will have to work on that .
The reel seat appears to be aluminum. There is a double ring system going on here where one ring screws down to put pressure onto a non threaded ring to hold the reel.
Not being very familiar with correct terms please bear with me. The hook holding loop is 90 degrees offset from the guides in the counter clockwise direction.
The first guide up from the reel is not all metal and the guide at the tip is not all metal. Perhaps ceramic?
The label on the tube is kind of a maroon color and the rod bag is red/maroon also.The specs for the rod that are on the tube are stamped into the lable and are not printed or typed.The screw in cap is black and does not have the Orvis name.
I took it out for a cast or two yesterday and it feels sloooowwww for a graphite to me but a fellow that was there teaching casting gave it a whirl and he grew a prety big grin pretty darn quik. Said he liked the way it picked up the line . I was getting some pretty good distace out of it , and then the teacher showed me what the rod would really do!! I feel my mediocrety very often.
I figure on bring this rod to the Missouri fish in adn see if anybody there can put a name and time line on it .
Any ideas would be helpfull.
I am not looking for a dollar figure on this rod.
I wont part with this one its a pretty sweet little rod.
Also, how may folkes can say that they have a 2 dollar Orvis rod? :lol:
Thanks ,
Perch
p.s on the rod tube the label does not say " 6wt" .
the engraving/stamp reads "HDG (6) as in
Length: 7 1/2 ft.
Weight: 2 1/8 oz.
For: ORVIS-HDG (6)
(as stamped on the lable on the rod tube)
I’ll give you double what you paid :lol: …sounds like a you picked up a real nice rod.
The cap says “graphite”…any markings on the rod? Could it be the old slow full flexing clearwaters? Did they mark them that way…I knos they did on bamboo and also on a few of the Orvis glass rods?
perch, I don’t know much about this stuff, but I’m getting clues that you have a fibre glass rod in a graphite tube perhaps. I think that with all the info you so painstakingly posted will draw those in the know to the post.
Yep, you lucked out…I don’t have a $2 Orvis, but I have a $1 Fenwick Ferralite in a 7 or 8 wt. can’t really tell as it was homemade. Also I have a $1 Hedden glass rod of some entry level desccription or other. Oh and btw, the HDG suggests glass or really early graphite to me…again limited knowledge here so take these thoughts in accordingly. Be proud of it and fish it often !
Orvis made a first generation graphite rod in the 7 1/2’ … 2-1/8 oz… 6wt size in the late '70s
As far as I know this particular rod only came with a down-locking cork reel seat
Your’s may be a slightly earlier version
I have many of the early Orvis graphite rods made in the late 70’s. The 7’-6" 6wt rods have a cork insert reel seat and rod is un-sanded. These were called their “Trout” models. All my rods in this time frame have the date code engraved on the butt cap such as 1077 would be Oct 1977.
If you ever want to sell the rod let me know. I am collector of the early Orvis graphite rods made in the late 70’s and early 80’s.