FWIW-Logo-- the late Ernest Hemingway favored Hardy rods and reels, over American cane rod offerings, especially in the 1930's, when with 2nd. wife's family wealth behind him, he had Uncle Gus Pfeiffer finance his deep sea 39ft Wheeler boat, named "The Pilar" and used Hardy rods and Vom Hofe salt water reels on it..Pictures of him trout fishing in Idaho's Silver Creek, also the Harriman "Railroad Ranch" section of the Henry's Fork also show him using a Hardy Rod and a Hardy Perfect fly reel. I'm not going to state that Hardy tackle of that era was any "better" Than: Leonard, Payne, Thomas, Gillum, Garrison, Wright&McGill, R.L. Winston, Heddon or Garrison.. The serious American fly fisherman of the pre-WW2 era had many offerings available to him in quality cane rods--Once you have fished for trout with a split cane fly rod, and then fished the same waters with a "chemical fly rod", well it's like hearing Glenn Gould, Canadian piano maestro, play the Bach Goldberg variations on a Steinway or Bosendorfer Grand piano, and then hearing the same played on a whorehouse piano, a la Scott Joplin. RWTF
