Middleton, Harry - "The Earth is Enough" 9'3" The blued ferrules are size

The blued ferrules are size 13/64 and the fit is nice and tight as it should be

and an alternate screw-in mount

For sale here is a Payne Model 201 bamboo rod in near mint restored condition

Deep emerald green blank with matching wraps

Stamped "JS" for Jimmy Smith

Middleton, Harry - "The Earth is Enough" 9'3" The blued ferrules are sizeHarry Middleton "The Earth is Enough" Simon And Schuster (1989), New York, 1989. First edition. Fine in pictorial dust jacket. "The angler hopes for nothing and prays for everything; he expects nothing and accepts all that comes his way. And although he knows all along that he will never sink his hook into a trout stream's true mystery, the desire to try, to cast once more and once more again, is never quenched, for there is always the chance that one