I am hoping to find what I consider to be a perfect rod for backpacking for Native Brookies here where I live. This may be an impossible but, here goes. 4' 4pc. 2wt. w/ black guides/stripper and black thread and reel seat hardware w/ dark insert. I would like the blank to have a satin finish so as not to have a glare. I know this may be impossible but, let's see what we can find. One last thing, it does not have to be expensive componants, as a matter of fact I prefer that it not be as I am most likely to damage it.

Thank you for your time.

Scott

You might be able to build something close by taking a multi-piece blank and dropping the last one or two sections. Just a thought ...

There are two light glass that come to mind-
A cabelas CGR 3WT 5'9"
Hardy aln 5'0"

global dorber makes a 4'6" 3/4 wt.

0000 steel wool will satin any finish. Brass blue will take the shine off NS.

Sorry, but forgot! TFO 5' 3 piece .5wt rod. Yes, I am a small rod Junkie. I am using an Orvis WF1F line. I plan to use it this year in my annual trip to the mountains. 3 pieces 21.5" with dark sliprings on a cork reelseat if you are backpacking. Blank is TFO Dark Green, so no flash for the Brookies.

Chips

Chips you'll love the TFO 5'0 3 piece .5 wt for packing into the wild, I use
It often on the small streams in Oregon ..perfect fly rod for that purpose ...using
A WF1F also on a BVK-0 both rod and reel r so light you don't even know they are there ..

Paul

I thought newtyer1 was banned.

Dan, that might have been Doug Macnair. I remember him doing some demonstrations on casting a very short rod. He was connected with the Wright rod makers in some way, and I thought he'd retired to somewhere down here in East Texas. Maybe Lufkin?