Happy to announce that I will now be offering quads. After about 2 years of playing around with quadrate design and construction I have come up with two of my own tapers that I really enjoy. Quads have a unique feel to hex rods- I find the action to be a bit more powerful and crisp, while extremely accurate. Hollowing them leaves you with a greater concentration of power fibers than you would find in a hex rod. Although there are less strips, they are significantly harder to make.
The first taper is a 9ft 6/7wt “boat rod” or “lake rod” in 3 piece. This is hollow built with a 1″ removable fighting butt, and comes in at about 5oz assembled weight. Very light in hand for such a long powerful rod, inspired by E.C. Powell’s B and C tapers- a blend of smoothness and speed with the strength to handle big fish. Think long casts on the back of a drift boat on larger water. I had the Delaware system in mind when I was designing it but I think it would be well suited for rivers out west as well.
The second design is an 8″ 5wt parabolic taper in 2 piece, hollowbuilt. Based loosely off of Paul Young’s work, this is an “everyday driver” kind of rod. You can fish it in close on small streams, it rolls casts particularly well, and has enough backbone from the parabolic design to bomb one out there when needed.
I love building these rods and I love getting them in peoples’ hands. There is just something special about those quads!
Hudson Valley Rod Co. 