#811751 - 01/02/13 10:34 AM
Re: Check it out: Old Fenwick ad....
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Three Time Spawner
Registered: 12/24/01
Posts: 1877
Loc: Kingston, WA
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Have 2 friends that still fish with ol' Fenwicks; one a FS79C and the other a FS83C. Both with ABU Garcia 5000's, of course. Built a nice Lami X96JC rod for one this Xmas and his main concern was whether he would still be able to fish his Fenny on my boat. Some things die hard.
Weird, I bought my first Fenwick at Warsahl's and they aren't even listed as a dealer. I also worked at Jafco Tukwila a few years later and don't remember them even carrying fishing gear.
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#811754 - 01/02/13 10:47 AM
Re: Check it out: Old Fenwick ad....
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Reverend Tarpones
Registered: 10/09/02
Posts: 8379
Loc: West Duvall
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I still fish my 1970s Fenwick trout rod. Did you know Fenwick was once owned by Lamiglas?
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#811755 - 01/02/13 10:53 AM
Re: Check it out: Old Fenwick ad....
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River Nutrients
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 3007
Loc: Browns Point,Wa. USA
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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. 
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#811756 - 01/02/13 11:09 AM
Re: Check it out: Old Fenwick ad....
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SRC Poser
Registered: 11/04/10
Posts: 2104
Loc: Snohomish
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I have a minty fresh FS79C that was my Dad's. I found it at my mom's a while back in a rod tube. They're killer plug rods but also work great as a downrigger rod for coho out in the sound and baker lake sockeye. My goal is to hook a big wild steelhead on it, have a replica of the fish made, and retire the rod to hang it up next to the fish.
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#811757 - 01/02/13 11:22 AM
Re: Check it out: Old Fenwick ad....
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Returning Adult
Registered: 06/08/05
Posts: 295
Loc: Renton, WA
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I have a minty fresh FS79C that was my Dad's. I found it at my mom's a while back in a rod tube. They're killer plug rods but also work great as a downrigger rod for coho out in the sound and baker lake sockeye. My goal is to hook a big wild steelhead on it, have a replica of the fish made, and retire the rod to hang it up next to the fish. Very cool idea !
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#811760 - 01/02/13 11:37 AM
Re: Check it out: Old Fenwick ad....
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Poodle Smolt
Registered: 05/03/01
Posts: 10878
Loc: McCleary, WA
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I still fish a Fenwick FS85C that was my dad's.
JAFCO had fishing and hunting gear in Olympia.
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#811900 - 01/02/13 11:33 PM
Re: Check it out: Old Fenwick ad....
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Three Time Spawner
Registered: 09/07/05
Posts: 1867
Loc: Spokane WA
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I have a FS83C that I use as a DR and plug rod. The add talks about using a sensitive rod, these are about the least sensitive rods you could ever find, it's almost like the goal was see how well they could insulate any tip movement from the cork.
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#811915 - 01/03/13 12:24 AM
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Ornamental Rice Bowl
Registered: 11/24/03
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#811917 - 01/03/13 12:28 AM
Re: Check it out: Old Fenwick ad....
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Returning Adult
Registered: 09/24/10
Posts: 481
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I bought my first shotgun from Jafco in North Everett a long time ago. Really don't remember what they had for a outdoors department except for that purchase. It was the summer between Freshman and Sophmore years of high school.
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#811923 - 01/03/13 12:51 AM
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Juvenile at Sea
Registered: 12/09/12
Posts: 111
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Still have the old Fenwick Fenglass I caught my first steelie on in '82. Silver and black tadpolly just above the Sunnyside access on the Skokomish. Those things are still a great plug rod. The old man had them for both pluggin rods and drift rods. I have an M2 tied on it right now from coho season.
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#811928 - 01/03/13 01:41 AM
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ExtenZe Field Tester
Registered: 11/10/09
Posts: 7960
Loc: Vancouver, WA
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Fenwick was THE rod when I was a kid. Wish I still had my ultralight trout rod. That company was never really able to break into the graphite market Huh ? Jim Green (Fenwick) started the graphite revolution with the HMG line. He also developed the modern ferrule that we all use today. Business decisions caused the Fenwick of old to die in about 1988. I scarfed up a small bunch of the last Fenwick USA blanks that I could get my hands on in 1988. http://rodbuilding.org/read.php?2,89440
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#811929 - 01/03/13 01:47 AM
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Ornamental Rice Bowl
Registered: 11/24/03
Posts: 12616
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That company was never really able to break into the graphite market No... never really? Really? For the record, they were the pioneers who pretty much paved the way for production graphite blanks/rods. They just never really took it seriously beyond that 1st generation graphite to maintain their market dominance. http://www.fenwickfishing.com/about_history.php
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#811930 - 01/03/13 01:48 AM
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Poodle Smolt
Registered: 05/03/01
Posts: 10878
Loc: McCleary, WA
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I have 4 of their graphite rods, and I'm still fishing them.
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#811941 - 01/03/13 02:36 AM
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ExtenZe Field Tester
Registered: 11/10/09
Posts: 7960
Loc: Vancouver, WA
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Nice pics, Doctor. I have two FS79Cs. One retired with a stress fracture....maybe I'll wrap over it someday. One is still a virgin blank.
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#811948 - 01/03/13 02:56 AM
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learned to baitcast on my dads Woodstream, still have it..
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#812012 - 01/03/13 11:52 AM
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River Nutrients
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 3007
Loc: Browns Point,Wa. USA
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I broke three rods in my life and two of them were Fenwicks. One, an original HMG and another new HMX a couple years later - one of them wasn't even a month old. Both broke during a completely typical encounter with a fish and, in both cases, Fenwick refused to warranty either rod... as a result, I am done with their graphite series.
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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.
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#812028 - 01/03/13 12:40 PM
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Three Time Spawner
Registered: 09/07/05
Posts: 1867
Loc: Spokane WA
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Their old glass rods must rather durable, seems like there are many still being used in normal service.
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#812046 - 01/03/13 01:48 PM
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River Nutrients
Registered: 11/07/99
Posts: 2685
Loc: Yelmish
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i have an FS79 that i built from a blank i picked up a few years ago. probably was one of the few un-wrapped blanks still in existence(i was told it was from someone who worked at fenwick who had a bunch of blanks, and he had died).
i put alconite guides and an old-school weibe handle kit on it, with contrasting dark green wraps. makes a wonderful egg pitching stick for small rivers...just say no to plugs.
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#812053 - 01/03/13 02:29 PM
Re: Check it out: Old Fenwick ad....
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ExtenZe Field Tester
Registered: 11/10/09
Posts: 7960
Loc: Vancouver, WA
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i have an FS79 that i built from a blank i picked up a few years ago. probably was one of the few un-wrapped blanks still in existence(i was told it was from someone who worked at fenwick who had a bunch of blanks, and he had died).
i put alconite guides and an old-school weibe handle kit on it, with contrasting dark green wraps. makes a wonderful egg pitching stick for small rivers...just say no to plugs. There's something special about those Fenwick Fenglas blanks. They even look different than their factory built rod equivalent. The factory rods that I have handled (and own) have an opaque "chocolate milk" color and the blanks are a translucent root beer brown with barely visible, tiny gold specks. I've always thought that the Fenglas blanks represented the highest evolution of the form. Lighter/quicker than Lamiglas S-glas even though they were both S-glas.
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