Fine rods Steve! I have a Battenkill 7 1/2’ 2/1(built that way) 3 7/8oz built in 1975.
Never cast a Winston WT but they sure seem to get a lot of love. It’s all good! What does the WT designate?
Please do post a couple of pics when you get the opportunity. Maybe someone here can ID your unknown 4 wt?
I have that rod too; one of my very favorites, and thought by many to be the finest graphite rod ever produced. Bobby: WT stands for “Winston Traditional” to differentiate it from the faster action rods in Winston’s line.
I have the JWF which is a WT. Nice medium action rod…still like the H2 a smidge better
I wasn’t aware the Battenkill came in a 5 weight…pretty cool
Did a little research on the Winston WT lineup of rods. I can see why they are so appreciated by many folks.
JWFWT…a Joanie WulffWT for a Joanie Goddess…very cool!
My Battenkill is actually inked HDH (6) but is much better with a WF5.
Ahhhh. That makes sense. That JWF is an awesome rod and I love the thumb dent.
Plus the weight
PLUS It is all mine 
I am not taking anything away from the LT and the two BIIx in the quiver.
Now I gotta know…what’s that Mars Rover reel you have hanging on the JWFWT???
An old Airflo Counterbalance. Cool reel. Nice Drag
My wife cast one of those Joan Wulff’s with the thumb dent at the factory in Twin Bridges last summer. I’ve been hearing about how much she liked it ever since! I bought a “production” Payne 100 last fall, and have only fished it a few times, but I like it. I want something a little faster for a 4wt. line too.
This is rather like asking what my favorite rifle is, it depends on what I’m hunting or the game I’m shooting…but I’ll try.
I’m mostly a blue collar rod guy and my favorite of the several I own is an 8’ 6" 323 South Bend that likes a #6 DT Terenzio silk in my hand. Next is a Pocket Water Rods 7’, 2/1 that casts like a dream with a #4 DT Terenzio. My first cane stick was an Orvis Madison Far and Fine and it is a good rod but it doesn’t see the use the two mentioned above see.
Bob
Looks more like a piece of space junk to me, but thats just me
I must be off…
Brad
Bobby,
actually, my rod is an HDH ,6 wt,also , but I always throw a 5 wt line on it. it was made by Skinner in 1952, one tip also.it came with another tip but it was likely not made by Orvis. not much of a difference between the two tips,though.
I go back and forth with my bamboo rods . I have another 3 wt based on a 6011. .lots of fun on a Shenandoah National Park stream with wild brookies.
best,
Steve
One mans space junk, is another mans… Don’t knock anything till you try it.
Aw well, I let the dog sniff the rod case after I pulled the cap on the case. She wasn’t that impressed. I looked at the ole bitch and commented ,“what do you know ?”. I took a good wiff myself and smelled the fragrance of “willow”. I don’t smell willow when I uncork a tube with my graphite rods. The aroma of the inside of rod tubes do have the ability to rekindle memories. I have pre-owned cane rods and can sense something that someone has passed on to me.
My first cane outfit was a Orvis 6 1/2’ Madison. Great rod and I got the Battenkill Reel with it. A 4 weight. I broke the tip section in some willows trying to unhook a fly but repaired it myself. It will go to my grave. It fished with some authority being a short rod. No wiggle-wiggle boing-boing. I liked that.
A Battenkill 8-1/2/3/2 HDH followed which I really had a hard time with. I commanded that rod to do things and it just flat out refused to follow my instructions. Along came the graphite rods and I took one for a ride on a $2 rental…IT WAS A MIRICLE!!! Mea Culpa, Maxima Culpa, I sinned and grinned and plopped down the $155 bucks. I was finally casting a fly the way I thought it should be.---------years later I lined up the Battenkill with a 4 weight line for giggles and ok, it was listening to me and cast the way I thought a rod should deliver a fly. Interesting, I bought the rod 2nd hand and could tell something of the fisherman that owned it before me. He fished alot,the black rod guides were worn showing some brass; and he used nose grease to lube the ferrules and cast with a circular rod path from the back cast to the forward cast. I had to adjust the alignment of the guides every so often back to straight.When I first eyed the rod the shop owner recommended a 7 weight line …pfffft.
And there is “Big Phil” a Phillipson Pacemaker 9-3 one tip fished with a HCH. A great rod , a powerful rod. I packed this rod along with my Orvis “Trout” 6 wt. for the heavy work…big 4 inch streamers. The Orvis couldn’t really handle the water I was trying to handle so I would put “Big Phil” to work for early daybreak fishing. “Phil” fished those streamers just the way I wanted. Trouble is-was that “Phil” rigged up with the Medalist is too heavy for a days work. Back to graphite.
…and for you cane freaks…just got an email from my right coast brother. He says a buddy of his was preparing a deceased relatives estate sale and in his buddies words “got a bunch of wooden fly rods we found in a closet, some have “Payne” written on them. Are you interested?”…Uhmmmmmm…
oh my goodness , what a find. I wonder what the others have written on them
Best,
Steve
orvis madison 6’6" for 4wt. 2 pc, 1 tip jordan era rod built in '69. like steve, I fish the SNP a LOT. It’s the ONLY grass rod I fish out there from the tiniest of trickles to the biggest cricks, and it’s a perfect rod for dries and dredging. I fish it with either a WF4F or DT3 and pair it with a nice little ballan s-handle trout heirloom. I’ll never sell it, as it’s my first boo rod and a perfect tool for the job out there in those native brookie streams.