The Scott Fly Rod Company
The story of Montrose, Colorado’s Scott Fly Rod Company began in 1973, when Harry Wilson started making fiberglass fly rods that soon gained an impressive reputation in hard-core angling circles. After some glorious years with fiberglass – during which Scott introduced the world’s first five piece fiberglass rod, for instance – Scott began experimenting with graphite, right around the time other firms were doing so. The emphasis the company had placed on hand-made, carefully-assembled, and lovingly-appointed fly rods remained unchanged with the new material, as it has up to the present day. Titanium guides, highest-grade Portuguese cork, machined aluminum and nickel hardware – these are clear examples of how function-based design decisions always have an aesthetic element at Scott. Whether in a minute detail like ferrule-alignment dots, or a major innovation like the tapered hollow internal ferrule, the appearance and the feel of a Scott show strongly the energy, the thought, and the devotion that went into its assembly.
