Orvis SSS Bamboo Fly Rod 8'9" 2/2 #10

Orvis SSS Bamboo Fly Rod 8'9" 2/2 #10An Orvis SSS model bamboo fly rod, 8'9", 2 piece, 2 tip, and built for a #10. Serial #73211. Very light use. Medium full flexing action. 7 ounces. The butt is trimmed shorter than the tips. Dark oven temper cane with a three up node pattern. Brown wraps with no edges. 3 carbide ring strippers on the butt. Chrome snakes and tip tops. Oxidized ferrules. The rod is nice and straight. The grip is 7" long in a blunt cigar with little hand soiling. The reel

The reel seat is a mortised curly maple with a large signature cap and ring (

Reversible two-screw lineguard - easily flipped as are the pawls for RHW or LHW use

Serial #2553 this rod was completed in December of 1988

A blend of the exceptional Payne and Granger 8' tapers and a joy to fish

3 1/4" diameter  with 1

darkly tempered cane with chestnut brown silks and fine black tipping

A Conrad Red Butt salmon fly tied by Keith Fulsher

Don't miss out on this handsome vintage Wheatley dry-fly box

Diameter - 2 3/4"

Favors LHW

A few of the wraps appear to have received a light touch-up of varnish at some point

The tensioner works as intended