Aroner Spinoza Salmon Fly Rod 6'9" 3/2 #7/8

For most of the 40 years I have fished for Atlantic salmon in both Nova Scotia and the Gaspe I have been tinkering with bamboo salmon rods. As the years passed I found that I was favoring shorter and shorter rods, especially on many of the small to medium-sized salmon rivers that I often fished. They had many advantages: they were much less tiring than longer rods; had faster cycle time for more accuracy and less wind interference; possessed fewer guides and therefore better shootability; were easier to transport; were easier to draw fish close in when landing them; and, above all, were a whole lot more fun to play fish on. In all, they seemed to offer about as enjoyable a way to fish for salmon as one could ask for. The stand-out model for me was the 6'9" utilizing a 7 sink tip or an 8 floating line. I fished the first model for 12 years, landing something like 60 salmon on that rod. I had worn out the guides and was thinking of retiring the rod when it was borrowed to cast in the Har