Fibreglass is very on trend at this time of year.
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Here’s a compellingly charming 8′ #4-weight. It’s light, quick and slim. Very much like you.
Nice colour, too. My friend Tim, a man with impeccable taste, has one just like it. If it’s good enough for Tim, it’s good enough for the rest of us.
Not, perhaps, the basis for a moral philosophy or the foundation of a massive commercial empire, but I’m a simple bloke so it’ll do for starters.
Also, when I go fishing with Tim, he cooks grouse breasts and uncorks Au Bon Climat pinot noir, which I find very agreeable.
‘If you get hungry later’ Tim invariably says in his kindly way, ‘there’s always a Pot Noodle or a Cup a Soup in the hamper.’
A man of contradictions then, but fortunately, not the owner of a camping kettle, so bad luck Messrs Unilever and Batchelors.
This rod is in stock. You’re a fairly trusting lot so you’ll probably accept my assurance that you really shouldn’t go fishing without one, but just in case you need convincing, you would be very welcome to make an appointment to try it out on the stream behind our workshop.
By the way, we don’t call it the Dream Stream. We’re not complete idiots.
Remember the seventies?
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I do too. And the sixties, some of it. Anyway, in the seventies, there were five State Authorised colours.
They were, as if you need reminding, orange, brown, purple, yellow and white.
It was a very happy decade for me but I was too young to realise how dreadful the official colour scheme was.
This is another super fibreglass fly rod, seven and a half feet long for a #4 line. It’s absolutely fabulous. Super and fabulous were permitted expressions of pleasure in the 1970s.
Like the rods Hardy made in those days, this one is brown. Unlike those classic Hardy rods, this one isn’t whipped in a State Authorised colour. Hardy’s used orange.
We live under a less authoritarian regime so we’ve whipped it with varnish-saturated silk that’s become transparent. The whippings have extremely fine black tippings. This is a tasteful rod that’s a joy to fish with.
Our fibreglass rods are built on CTS blanks, which are the best in the world. We build and finish them with our usual attention to detail. They have hand turned olive wood joint stoppers, tailor made bags and Barder Rod Co aluminium cases.
No flared trousers were worn during the writing of this email.
With best wishes from a rather sere Newbury,
Edward Barder & Colin Whitehouse