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While I can't add anything specific to your Jenkins quest, I can bracket one decade at Bailey's, and thank you for putting me up to paging through the catalogs I have for 1971 and 1981. The only way I can account for the ten-year lapse is that the years were pretty lean then for our much younger family. The '71 Bailey's shows a full range of Battenkills, all at $150, and an Orvis Rocky Mountain 6-1/2' pack rod, a 3/2, at $165, with the possibility of adding a Western leather carrying case for $29.50; the only other bamboo rods being Cortland 444 Ltd. impregnateds. This catalog has choice photos of fishermen holding up their Wall of Fame fish taken on the Yellowstone. Both the fish and the fishermen are notable. A young John Bailey holds aloft a 6 lb. 5 oz. brown taken on a Bailey's Dark Spruce streamer; Joe Brooks can't outdo this, with his 5 lb. 9 oz. brown that fell to a Bailey's Muddler; Charley Waterman has a 6 lb. rainbow, which fell victim to a Woolly Worm, presumably a Bailey's WW; and then there's Marshall Harvey, whose 14 lb. 15 oz. Muddler-caught brown seems half Harvey's size in the picture. Every time I look at it and read the caption, I can't help wondering why everyone was so chinchy-prim about not adding the extra ounce. This catalog also touts the Ocean City 77 reel as the best at a moderate price to have an adjustable silent drag--$10.75. (With a little luck and industry in your shopping, you can find one for less now.) But that is neither here nor there with regard to Bailey's featuring Jenkins.

Doesn't do it in the 1981 catalog either, but clearly a lot has happened to the market during that decade. The catalog still has the Royal Wulff on the cover but has grown into an 8-1/2" by 11" format. Orvis's Battenkills are still in it, topping out at $460, and specialty rods such as the Flea, the Seven/Three, and the Midge are there as well. Don Green, formerly of Fenwick, adds a line of Sage graphites; Fenwicks are there too; and Scotts; and Winston graphites and fiberglass, though not their bamboo. There are some beautiful photos of Hardy reels including the newest in the line, the Sunbeam. And, lo!, the back cover is totally devoted to bamboo. Nope no Jenkins. Leonards. Standards at $750, Hunts at $900, Catskills at $825.

But don't feel too bad about this. You have merely forgottten the whereabouts of the Bailey-featured Jenkins. I have misplaced a whole decade.

I should add--don't give up. There must be countless other forum members who can't bear to throw away old catalogs because of their delight in paging through them every five years or so.