Those Fenglass models are a prize to own. I have a fly rod with the brass ferrules that was custom made in 1965 by a sports shop operator in Kirkland.

I have four or five 1980 rods, two spinning and two rods for level winds, plus a heavier Fenglass rod from the same year. and still use the spin & casting rods that are 6-1/2 feet I think.

I took them as a partial trade for money and rods when I photographed Jimmy Green flycasting for the 1981 Fenwick catalog cover.

They would not have any collector's value since I had Gregg's custom rods in Lake Stevens cut them into four sections and installed metal ferrules to make travel rods that fit into my carrry-on or checked luggage about five years ago.

They have been great for fishing Silvers in Alaska since I had them converted in 2008.

Those reels are a prize too. I wore one out fishing in the salt and lost another when a fish took my rod overboard at Skagway rocks at Neah Bay.

It was a sinking feeling when that rod went flying out of the boat and we couldn't reach it as the fish towed it away and it sank into the depths. I had just dispatched a rockfish and was putting it into the fish box and re-baiting and casting back to fish.

I'm still using my green 5000 D's I bought in 1968 for $22 each at Ed's Surplus
in Lynnwood on some trips. I had them rebuilt at John's in Everett about six years ago.

When I use to clean them I would use an egg cartoon for the parts so I could keep them in order once I re-assembled them.

Dave V. has a Fenglass model that he still uses for perch fishing in Lake Washington.

So you bought yourself some fine pieces that will still fish well an are a part of PNW fishing history.