With great pride and hope, I welcome you to North Fork's inaugural catalog. As we are a new business, I ask you to be patient with us as we ramp up our production to provide the best-quality "Made in the USA" rod blanks on the market. There are some exciting things we want to introduce to our fishing friends, all of which are designed to give you a better angling experience. We hope you share just a little bit of our excitement, after all, if it weren't for all you fishermen and women, we'd have to build golf shafts!
Good Fishing,
About Gary Loomis & His Design Approach
Gary has chased fish since he was old enough to walk, and he has more than four decades of rod- design experience under his belt. Gary is also an inductee into the IGFA Hall of Fame, joining the legendary likes of Zane Grey, Ernest Hemmingway and Izaak Walton (we like to think that they would have all called Gary to make their personal rods).
Gary has an energy level that resembles the cartoon Tasmanian devil (those who know Gary, know what we mean), which he throws into three things: rod design, fishing and saving Pacific salmon from nonselective commercial overharvest.
Over a lifetime of passionate pursuits, Gary has acquired many titles: fisherman, conservationist and industry pioneer. For us, he's our designer, head of sales and owner. We just call him "the man."
Gary's vision for North Fork blanks is to see fishing tools that perform at the highest level, yet still possess the needed strength for real-world use. It can be a delicate balance. As Gary has said, "I could build you a blank that would never break...but you wouldn't want to fish with it!" So, North Fork blanks are created to provide the highest performance, but are tempered with the backbone necessary for surviving season after season of hard-core fishing.
Of course, these are blanks designed by Gary, so that means the "tempering" is done with decades worth of knowledge about materials and construction. It means the innovative use of graphite to achieve strength and durability, without having to sacrifice other aspects of performance. In Gary's mind, why go the easy route, and use "status quo" design routines, when you can take materials in new directions and provide a better solution?
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