Len Butterworth Rods

[spizza]

Anyone own a piece of OZ fishing nostalgia?

[Berleyguts]

I have 3 Butterworth rods, built myself on Butterworth blanks -a FMT72L - first rod I ever built; a SuperBarra and a MT8120. All are great rods. I still regularly use the FMT and the SuperBarra but I stripped the runners off the 8120 years ago and haven't got around to rebuilding it yet. All have caught a lot of fish over the years.

Baz

[Jewdreamer]

Love the old Butterworths

I've got

3 custom MT4144 bream rods for Alvey 600A

1 MT7144 (my first Tailor rod) set up for an Alvey 650C

1 MT8144 custom overhead I used with a Shimano Triton Mag for LB jews and spinning

1 custom FSU4120 cut from tip and butt to 10ft , all Fuji SIC guides and a Roller tip, used with a Penn Senator 114H for LBG--not bad for the late 80s eh?

1 FSU5162 set up for a 700E Alvey - heavy beach and rock rod.

Great gear and never let me down.

Cheers

Chris

[spizza]

Love the old Butterworths

I've got

3 custom MT4144 bream rods for Alvey 600A

1 MT7144 (my first Tailor rod) set up for an Alvey 650C

1 MT8144 custom overhead I used with a Shimano Triton Mag for LB jews and spinning

1 custom FSU4120 cut from tip and butt to 10ft , all Fuji SIC guides and a Roller tip, used with a Penn Senator 114H for LBG--not bad for the late 80s eh?

1 FSU5162 set up for a 700E Alvey - heavy beach and rock rod.

Great gear and never let me down.

Cheers

Chris

Being a young kid back in the late 80's, early 90's, I remember throwing out in the rubbish some of these Butterworth rods my that were sitting in my dad's shed for years gathering dust...I used to think they were dinosaurs compared to my neat new graphite rods at the time , which have since been used to grow tomatoes in the dad's vegie patch....moron! .

[Berleyguts]

Oh, I forgot, I have a Butterworth MT8144 low mount, I bought off the rack in the 80s, too. Then I think I have a Snyderglass MT4120 and another FMT72L which are essentially the same blanks.

Baz

[spizza]

Oh, I forgot, I have a Butterworth MT8144 low mount, I bought off the rack in the 80s, too. Then I think I have a Snyderglass MT4120 and another FMT72L which are essentially the same blanks.

Baz

Nice, hang onto them. Whilst graphite rods are lighter, you just can't beat the durability of fibreglass rods and Butterworth and Snyder are an important part of the OZ fishing scene, slowly forgotten with all the new range of stuff available these days. Always come up great too when rebuilt.

[Berleyguts]

Nice, hang onto them. Whilst graphite rods are lighter, you just can't beat the durability of fibreglass rods and Butterworth and Snyder are an important part of the OZ fishing scene, slowly forgotten with all the new range of stuff available these days. Always come up great too when rebuilt.

The FMT is also a forgiving rod - my wife loves it.

Like guitars, I will never sell a rod!

Baz