Show JIM jl No More Doubt With sufficient time having elapsed to prove the there is no more doubt that the glass fishing rods for spinning and fly use have made a lasting place for themselves In the list of In it is a tenable assumption that the glass rods finally may displace the metal rods altogether and seriously threaten use of The reason for that is Instantly obvious to the angler who has engaged in extensive use of all three types of It Is simply a popular fact that thc glass rod can take requires less care and attention than the bamboo and as yet has shown none of the tendency of metal rods to snap off while being oft times on a This latter fault in steel rods is due of the metal and it sometimes occurs in even the highest-priced metal Why is the glass rod A year we examined the role the glass rod was beginning to play in 1 the angler's scheme of things and that article indicated the trend that was to bring the glass rod to the 1 The fact that the top rod manu- i in the nation are apparent- ly placing more emphasis on the i glass rods and their development I on other types of rod is Indicative of their confidence in the of this type of fishing in a year we again checked fly rod this lime turning to the Montague firm tor our information because these rod-makers have come up with an light and flexible cod at the same shown I 30 sacrifice of strength or Ed answering our query lor the Montague In coreless rods first same out about eight years They were the Invention of a West scientist and seemed to work 1 lut very well on the West when the rods came East and were subjected to the cli-nate around Cape they be-i very brittle and broke by the the duPont developed a special treatment for glass ram that guarded it against climatic effects with the result that I fishing rod made of glass became practical and the first solid glass rod was developed in the Middle same specially treated yarn was then used by both the solid glass and the tubular glass first started experimenting with solid glass about three and one half years ago and we developed our own method of turning out a solid glass experiments were carefully supervised by Montague experts and only when we came up with a shaft that met the exacting action which Montague had come to expect from bamboo did we stop About a year and a half Montague bought the oldest fiberglass low pressure laminated corporation in the our experts went to work and special mandrels were designed to produce a rod that would meet the requirements of the experts so far as action is concerned after a fishing rod Is only as good as its action no matter what it's made we wanted to point out to the public that all glass rods are not the same and that our glass rods have what it we approached the United States Testing the foremost testing laboratory in the country and submitted to them samples of Montague solid glass and These rods were subjected to all the tests a fishing rod could ever be expected to meet under actual fishing conditions plus a lot of The rods were given cold extreme heat flexing tests that would be equivalent to one hundred years of fishing tests and still they didn't break AAA |