Sweetgrass Fly Rod - "Falcon" 8' 2/1 #5 Penta

Sweetgrass Fly Rod - "Falcon" 8' 2/1 #5 PentaFor sale here is a 8 foot 5 weight, two piece, one tip "Falcon" rod made by Sweetgrass. Five sided rod (penta). The Falcon line of rods are offered as specials at the end of each year and are akin to the Mantra line in that the rods have some sort of minor visual blemish or imperfection (nothing structural, simply cosmetic). A great fishing rod at a fantastic price!

Thomas style grip

Jonas shapes the wood using saws

The three flies along the bottom are green machines

Save yourself a multi-year wait for a new rod from Mario and pick up this rod for a reasonable premium over his current pricing for a glass-ferruled trout rod

The rod features light to medium toned cane with goldenrod wraps and burgundy tipping at the winding check

The ferrules are wrapped in magenta with black

Set up with a carbide stripper and black snake guides

published by Willmarth Tackle Company from Roosevelt

Bright down-locking aluminum reel seat over a burl walnut spacer with a nickel silver butt cap

Includes original cloth bag with stiffener and original un-labeled aluminum tube

No die stamp on the butt cap dates this rod to the late 1980's

There are 12 hand-tied flies each housed in a small plastic container