Something I posted on another forum two years ago about something I had posted on another forum...
I wouldn't spend money on a coarse rod (I like graphite far too much), but if money was no object and the two-tip rod was an exquisitely crafted, perfect-actioned, tiny, weightless wand by Tom Moran...
- self, Sat Nov 22, 2008 12:01am:
Something below that I posted on the Loops Forum a few weeks ago. Not an advert for any firm or for any man, just a comment about the best British cane fly rod maker I have encountered (and some anglers, not just a few and not merely in Britain, end-users who can afford Tom Moran's rods - I'm not one of them - will agree with me).....
Loops, "Cane", Nov. 04 2008,11:18:
I made a few cane rods myself (from the original Tonkin poles, splitting them, planing them, gluing them etc) in the 1970s - tiny tods only (graphite, even then, was better for heavier work) - 6- to 7.5-foot light-line wands - and got quite keen on both the building and the rods, until I was invited by my pal Alan Bramley, the then owner of Partridge hooks, to a cane rod-building seminar at his lovely, Victorian factory on Mount Pleasant, Redditch...
That day I met one of Alan's employees, Tom Moran, and saw the top-end rods that Tom sometimes made for Partridge but mostly made for himself: masterpieces every one. I promptly gave up cane rod-building!
Tom is producing rods again, I heard recently. Some outfit named The Alternative Angler was offering Tom Moran rods for sale. Now, I don't have that sort of money, but if any of you have....