Adams Fly Rod, 9 foot 4 piece, 5 or 6 weight
Item Code # ADAMS 9 4 pc
Our price: $229.00
List price: $249.00
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Product Attributes
- Alignment Dots: none, Align Dots
- Custom Inscription: no thanks, yes, add to comments.
- Feather inlay: hen saddle, Jungle cock, partridge, pheasant
- fighting butt: none, 1 inch, 1.5 inch, Beer Cap Butt Cap
- Guides: Blue inserts on strip guides, Gold Inserts on Strip Guides, Recoil Single foot, Synenergy Guide System chrome, Synenergy Guide System Recoil SIngle Foot, Synenergy Guide System Titanium Carbide, Titanium Carbide single foot, Chrome
- Rod Line Weight: 5 weight, 6 weight
- Rod Tube case Cap: Black STD, Gold Cap, Standard
- Rod Tube Color: Black, Blue, Gloss Bronze, Green , Olive, Extruded Aluminum
- Special Thread Wraps: none, Brook Trout Fin on strip guide, Feather inlay on each section, Measuring wrap at designated distance, Multiple Feather Inlays on butt section, Red White and Blue wrap, tip each guide with accent color
- Thread Colors: blue, red, gray, rust orange, black, gold
Product Description
This rod is a re-release of an old rod we used to sell. The rod only comes with a western grip and black anodized reel seat with chrome guides.
It was over 13 years ago I sat behind a glass jewelry counter full of fly reels on the 3rd floor of an old refurbished textile mill. At the time I was not selling JP Ross Fly Rods, I was selling someone else’s. The entry level fly rod for that company was around $300.00. I sold one… hell I sold about a dozen of them. Although I was happy to sell a fine fly rod to a customer, I didn’t feel connected to the customer, to the angler.
The idea of making fly rods seemed ennobling. In fact I drew the logo design for JP Ross while in a high school English class. There were two problems with the dozen or so rods I’d sold: 1) the entry level price for their rod was a little steep for someone “just getting into the sport” and 2) it wasn’t personal and didn’t have the JP Ross name on it… better yet, it didn’t have the anglers’ name on it. That was 1997, and the concept of the Adams fly rod was born. The concept was simple. Make a rod that’s affordable, superior in quality, and allows the angler to simply fish.
Nearly a thousand Adams fly rods and a decade later, I closed my fly shop. The era of the big box store cast a seemingly insurmountable shadow. Entering into the world of electronics materials, I said goodbye to the Adams and the world inside the old mill I’d come to love. What I never said goodbye to, were the friendships and the school of hard knocks’ principles I’d learned and earned during that precious time. The diehard fans and believers of the JP Ross brand instilled in me the drive to create custom fly rods of impeccable care and quality.
Today, our most popular selling rods are completely custom made and have a multitude of attributes to fit each angler. In the early days, the Adams rod was created to sell a large volume of product. I needed to get more rods in people’s hands to grow my following. Today, it’s a little different.
Today, I have a wonderful day job in the materials market, and JP Ross is a labor of love and in truth is stronger and more powerful than it’s ever been. The release and improvement of such models as the K357, the SYNenergy™ System, the Reuben Wood, the new ONYX and Mayfly, and the Adirondack Trout Bum™ have all strengthened our brand. Each is an artful working fly rod. With this success, the same feeling of opening my doors to my shop thirteen years ago has returned. With it, a desire to reincarnate the Adams. This time however, my desire to make the Adams fly rod is rooted in bringing my product to people because I want to, not because I need to.
The re-release of the Adams has been refined compared to what it was before. In today’s Adams, you’ll find simple sophistication. Today the Adams is offered in an eight and a half foot length, in a 5 or 6 weight. The rod is available in a 2 piece; client demand will determine if we additionally introduce a 4 piece or perhaps switch to only a 4 piece. We will see. What do you think?
Something new for the re-release is the ability to slightly customize certain attributes. You choose rod wrap color. You may decide to add a fighting butt. The reason being is simple. We want to make these rods affordable and special for the user. We also have grown as a company and quite frankly don’t want to mass produce a fly rod, I want to craft each one. After all, mass production’s best left to big box yes? This does of course affect profitability because of the added American labor however our goal is to retain our customer, keep them fishing and enjoy fishing with a JP Ross Fly Rod. Happy customers tell people, and eventually, perhaps, they will need another rod. When they do…. JP Ross is ready to oblige.
It’s 13 years later and the JP Ross Adams Fly Rod is back and better. Who says 13 is unlucky?
