Charlie Cole

My name is charlie cole reidsville,nc. i am a retired tobacco buyer for Phillip Morris USA 40 yrs. treaveling the usa buying green leaf tob. at auction. I cut my teeth flyfishing on a cane rod that was made by granddad out of what ever was avaible to him, was not pretty but it worked. i grew up on his farm in south side va. and spent my summers with him growing tob. the rest of my teenage life was spent in roanoke, va, were i was introduced to trout and small mouth bass. I bought my first real bamboo rod at the tender age of 10yrs. along with reel and good flyline and real leaders and flies boy i thought i was in heven, cost (1955) 15.00 dollars still have that old rod and reel the line too not useable but the rod and reel stills work. I guess you could say i am self taught,even though i never took a class, read wayne cattanaught book anf george burns, made a lot of my tools and jigs,Thanks Harry Boyd for the loan of our plane making jigs. I have made 5 rods so far for myselg and a friend and my granddaughter, never had so much fun completly loosing my mind, I also make hex cases for my rods something that pretty deserves a good case to house it in. tight lines charlie