Quote Originally Posted by Moveon View Post
Those older fly rods are valuable and heirlooms so treasure them. Especially when they are given to you from your father. My dad is gone now. He died in 2001 a week before 911. But I have all his fishing stuff still. Tackle boxes full of old fishing lures and over 40 rods and reels now plus all the one's I purchased ovcer the years. And I'm not fishing much anymore these days due to health concerns.
I would imagine that some of those old lures could still be works of art (Creek Chubs, Heddons, Arbogast, Bombers, Hawaiian Wigglers, etc.) and perhaps valuable dependent on their condition.

I still have a few old Bombers in their original boxes for keep sakes and some non collectible Bombers and River Runts fro eBay that I still use on the Ohio, strip pits and Canada. Even used them briefly years back on a trip with Dave Stewart. Catching is even more enjoyable for a 70 year old on these 60+ year old “relics”!