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Salmon Rod Fighting Butts

by Marc Aroner December 07, 2012 1 min read

I’ve always built the fighting butts on my salmon rods with standard cork, but recently I carved out a few minutes to play with some new designs that I had been mulling over inspired in part by the payne-style acorn caps that I was working on some while back. Anyway, here’s the result. Thoughts?

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Fly Rod Fighting Butt

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Fly Rod Fighting Butt 3

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