Payne Facts

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Payne Rod Company

Beyond the former Payne Plant at Highland Mills, NY, lie the classic streams in which the brown trout was first planted and the dry fly first fished in America. So it is but natural that during the more than 100 years of the E.F. Payne Rod Company's existence, thousands of anglers have brought their problems and requirements into the shop whose doors have always been open to them.

In their time, such well-remembered men as Dr. Henry Van Dyke, Chancellor Levison, Albert Hendrickson, and Theodore Gordon (who traded thirty-nine dozen of his beautiful flies for a Payne rod) propped their feet on a workbench and discussed the problems created by the new fish and the new fishing - brown trout and dry fly.

Equally famous anglers, and of course many unknown to fame, come to the new Payne Plant in Bend, Oregon for the same purpose, although nowadays the rivers of Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Colorado and California are mentioned, along with those of New York and Pennsylvania, Canada and New Zealand. And they are still welcome, whether they want to discuss a rod problem or just look around.

In presenting this catalog of the various types and patterns of Payne rods, we believe we can rightfully assume that the Payne name has been nationally known for quality ever since the Payne rod won the Gold Medal awarded at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. For almost one hundred years we have compounded hundreds of rod patterns.

In this catalog we list only those which are currently popular. As we have served and pleased so many, it is our sincere desire to put into the hands of the new purchaser a Payne rod that not only fits them but is also well chosen for the type of angling they enjoy.

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Text Box: 490 NE Butler Market Road, Ste. 100
Bend, Oregon, 97701
Phone: (541) 549-1544