"This year, we proudly celebrate our 50th anniversary. It’s been a journey filled with fun, firsts, camaraderie, and a half-century of handcrafting high performance fly rods.
In contemplating the most fitting tribute to the anglers who fish Scott rods, the rodsmiths that craft them, and the rod designs of Harry Wilson, Larry Kenney, and Jim Bartschi, we picked one rod from each decade that exemplifies Scott innovation and, in some way, changed the way we fish.
Each was chosen from an award-winning series of Scott rods that are even more celebrated by the anglers who fish them. For those anglers, these are ‘never part with’ rods.
Rather than replicating the originals, we decided to build the blanks to spec with a resto mod approach to finishing them. They will be instantly recognizable to Scott history buffs, but we’re introducing some new surprises by finishing them with today’s best-in class components and construction techniques.
In celebration we offer these tribute fly rods with a heartfelt thank you to the whole Scott family."
The ARC series of salmon and steelhead rods were the first rods to deploy ultra-light weight unidirectional graphite laid up off the zero-degree axis. Now found in many premium fly rods, it was a major innovation when introduced.
The material and construction breakthrough allowed us to make some of the lightest and smoothest double handers of their time. Gone were the days of heavy lumbering two handers that tired anglers out after a half day of fishing.
The 1287/3 is still one of our most searched for salmon and steelhead rods.
