About 40 years ago my friend Bill Tagg built a 2 piece cane rod for me. I used it regularly for 20 years on brooks and small rivers. I got it out again two weeks ago and had a dabble on the local small river. It was a pleasant re union and I realised what I had been missing for 20 years.
It looks like our club are about to secure quite a bit of local fishing and this rod will be ideal. I have a couple of carbon rods that would also do the job, probably with more accuracy but there is something quite satisfying about how cane works in harmony with the line, as opposed to the rod bossing the line.
It is rated as a wt 5/6 but I find a 5 wt is plenty. I was hoping to get a Smallstream #5 for it but the website says out of stock? What is the situation Mike?