FISH & FLY WINSTON ARTICLE
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I just got through reading a sad piece on the departure of bamboo rod makers at Winston in Fish & Fly.
There goes their chance of getting any ad money out of Twin Bridges! On the upside though they have a kick ass new website with movies and everything. I guess progress is good sort of!This is kinda old news for insiders 😉
Update Nov 27:
I wrote about it in October 2005: http://bassbug.blogspot.com/2005/10/end-of-era-at-winston-rod-company.htmlWell the news wasn’t as ‘secretive’ as one might think. In fact it made quite a stir when Glen decided to resign when the management didn’t approve of his choice of following up the bamboo devision. But again, it’s not CNN headline news item either, so no worries!
Jay
Really old news to us Winstonites.
FWIW – here is Jerry Kustich’s comments in March. www.uppermidwestflyfishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1174
Here are some pics of the last day of the ‘boo boys.
I’ve got the magazine in a short stack of reading material for a upcoming trip to the PNW this week.
If I thought it was right I would be singing the praises of those green sticks here. I know that this is Zach’s site and Zach has a thing and a deal going with Scott so in respect to being in his house, I zip my lip.
With the blessings of Zach though, that could easiy change! 😉The article was well done and went in to more depth than the usual internet chatter. I appreciated Glenn Brackett’s perspective on the lineage of rod building going back to the original builders etc. By not accepting his advice on a successor that he could pass the bamboo shop on to its really devalued their future product. Without a name builder I don’t see how Winston will maintain their prestige and cache as a premium builder of bamboo fly rods or as the premium brand it was. Would you rather have a rod built by someone hand picked and trained by a master builder or someone who was building graphite rods 2 or 3 months ago?
I think Winstons current graphite rods a as good as any rods made. They are the most beautiful also.
This story is BAD KARMA though. I am sure there are spin doctors in LA recently freed up from former republican members of congress working hard to make it go away in 5 oe 10 years!ibook – re your comment that this is not exactly CNN Headline News, I actually saw a CNBC Power Lunch segment of Woody explaining his new business strategy at Winston.
tl
lesThere are some great new rods out. The 8′ 4 wt and 8’6″ 5 wt BIIt are wonderful, smooth rods. The Z-axis are, IMO, a vast improvement over the XP. Orvis’ new Troutbum editions of the Super Fine rods look wonderful, althought I have not cast them. The Scott G2’s are also a great new version.
We may be living in the golden times of graphite. My comment about the industry contracting is just that, fly fishing is losing it’s base at the very time that rods, reels, etc. are reaching new heights. With rods and tackle so good, maybe our focus should be how many new friends have we introduced to fly fishing?
– David
We may be living in the golden times of graphite. My comment about the industry contracting is just that, fly fishing is losing it’s base at the very time that rods, reels, etc. are reaching new heights. With rods and tackle so good, maybe our focus should be how many new friends have we introduced to fly fishing?
– David
Good points and exactly the reasons we started a new FFF sanctioned fly fishing club here in the south.
The main focus is to educate. Through that we hope to bring a new crop of fly fishers into the sport to carry the torch.
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