This rod is more than mint
One of the first things I checked on this rod was the reel seat spacer -- made of tiger stripe maple -- whose amber color came from a heat-treating process and which marks it as one of the rods that I worked on myself at Leonard fairly early in my rodmaking career
Restored masterfully by Steve Blake
Highest quality Super-Z style nickel silver ferrules
This reel will balance spey rods in the 15’‐18’ range
Middleton, Harry - "The Earth is Enough" 5 Weight This rod is more thanHarry Middleton "The Earth is Enough" Simon And Schuster (1989), New York, 1989. First edition. Signed by the author. Fine in pictorial dust jacket. "The angler hopes for nothing and prays for everything; he expects nothing and accepts all that comes his way. And although he knows all along that he will never sink his hook into a trout stream's true mystery, the desire to try, to cast once more and once more again, is never quenched, for there is