I had two FS79C's and loved them. I thought I was really stepping up when I upgraded to a $35 rod. Ernst Hardware circa 1975?

They were great plug rods and my last one was stepped on, in the side tray, as a friend jumped out of the boat to fight a fish.

He landed it, I snapped a photo and made him a copy framed so he could remember his first steelhead and the fish that broke my rod.



smile


Edited by JTD (01/02/13 10:54 AM)
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In the legend of King Arthur, the Fisher King was a renowned angler whose errant ways caused him to be struck dumb in the presence of the sacred chalice. I am no great fisherman, and a steelhead is not the covenant of Christ, but with each of these fish I am rendered speechless.