January Meeting
Mike Stanton -
Provided a slide show of the Pheasants that he raised, many of the birds are used for fly tying feathers in the past and present

Mike Thomas brought four unknown bamboo rod bags that had been donated to the club

All of the rods are referred to as Montague/Chubb trade rods, and all are in various states of disrepair. These rods date to 1910-1930

Trade rods were lower grade rods that manufacturer's like Montague/Chubb/UTK allowed the hardware stores to mark up and sell. They were sold by the hundreds of thousands. These are usually identified by the ferrules and reel seat quality (plated, pressed/stamped/soldered brass)

One Rod reel seat has the "DE" logo with an arrow through it. The "DE" logo stands for "Diamond Edge", meaning it was made by Montague and sold through Shapleigh Hardware of St. Louis, who owned the trade marked "DE" name.

Montague was a Massachusetts manufacturer, and Montague made more bamboo rods than anyone.

Chubb was a northeast Vermont manufacturer that made every kind of hardware and rod fitting. If you want to know more about Thomas Chubb, here is a biography.

Montague bought Chubb in the 1890's and continued to manufacturer parts in NE Vermont.

Montague put hanging ring guides on rods clear into the 30's. Typically on higher end rods, most manufacturers stopped that before 1910.

These are images of the rods with additional pictures of a catalog they could have come from (Thomas Chubb 1888)

Royce proposes saving one (mix a few parts to make a complete rod) for a wall hanger at Idaho Pizza and use the rest of the parts to make the best dubbing needles ever!

The last image is the rod restored from the rod parts saved for restoration.