Fly Fishing with Vintage Fenwick FF75-4 Glass Rod

Producer: Wooly Bugged

This is the first video in a new series where Michael Evanko goes fly fishing for trout with vintage fly rods. In this video he pursues wild brook trout in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania with a vintage Fenwick FF75-4 travel rod. This 7′-6″ fiberglass fly rod was manufactured in 1968-1969.

This rod is a tough find because 4-piece travel rods were not common 50 years ago. The stream fished in this video is a 4-mile long tributary on the eastern side of Big Pine Creek. Evanko accessed this water by hiking 3.5 miles on foot down a state access road. The water was 52 degrees at the time of filming. All brook trout in this video were caught on a #14 Parachute Adams dry fly.