Bamboo fly rod identification

[JMP]

I received a bamboo fly rod as a Father’s Day gift from my son on Sunday. He stated the individual he purchased it from stated is was a WW II bamboo rod. There are no identification features on the rod. It came in a spare gun barrel sleeve and has two tips. He was told one tip is for flies and the other is for bait.
Any insight on how I can identify the rod or determine its weight? I will try to obtain more information when he is here for Sunday dinner tomorrow.
Thank you

 

[Bamboozle]

I'm not an expert, but I am pretty sure it is a Montague Clipper which was available in 8'6", 9'0" & 9'6" lengths. I'm not sure of the vintage.

I don't "believe" Montague ever made two tip rods with two different tips so my suspicion is the shorter tip is either a repaired broken tip or a tip from a different Montague rod.

As far as line weight goes, avoid experimenting with "trick taper" or overweight lines fly lines. I'd start with a 6 weight, true-to-weight, standard taper line like a Cortland 444 and go up or down from there in line weight based on your casting stroke & rod action preferences.

I hope this helps a little.

Enjoy your present!!

 

[turkey]

https://classicflyrodforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=148980

Not a ton of information in this link, but some.

 

[JMP]

All,
Thank you for the information. The rod measures 8’6”. What remains of a decal above the reel seat appears to be Mo, so I believe this is a Montague.

 

[DGC]

Definitely a Montague, likely a Sunbeam. That type reel seat was common with different color plastic spacers, and sometimes all brass nickel plated. The ferrules, unless they were replaced, are nickel plated brass, which often develop hairline cracks. The barrel cover is a nice item. Wish I had one.

 

[gfenlikestolosepasswords]

Clean the ferrules inside and out before assembly, I used rubbing alchohol on cotton swabs for the female and on some cotton gun patches for the male. Assemble and dissamble with straight movements only, otherwise you risk delaminating the old glue at the ferrules.

You'll also want to maybe secure your loose thread wraps there. There's a right way to do it, and then there was my quick hack way which was a lil bit of superglue and pulling them back onto the existing wraps and not the bamboo.

DOing it properly would be a better idea, though. Hey, I jsut wanted to fish my first beater.

As noted, it's probably a 6wt and if you decide to buy a new line down the road, there's some that come with thinner diameters for the old small guides, but it's not really neccessary.