HL Leonard Baby Catskill Fly Rod 6' 2/2 #1/2

HL Leonard Baby Catskill Fly Rod 6' 2/2 #1/2An HL Leonard Baby Catskill bamboo fly rod, 6', 2 piece, 2 tip and built for a #1 or #2 line. It is very unusual to find one of these rods in original and full length condition, and especially an early model like this which has reverse twist guides. The later models had heavier tips (about . 045") but this one has tips that are ~. 035". Both tips have been cast as there is a minute amount of brassing to the inner reverse twist bronze guides. There is

Small tear at the top of the spine

Blued nickel silver cap and ring reel seat over a cork spacer with the butt cap featuring the expected PHY Detroit stamp

Serial #560 which indicates a 1979 manufacture date

The spacer shows a bit of wear from the sides of reel feet

Serial #3860

Original owners name on the rod

and other collecting trivia

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The reel is a direct drive

Seven feet

Normal scratching and scuffing from use