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Caddis4, I don't have much comprehensive knowledge of Montague 'glass, but I hope you enjoy that one as much as I did mine. I bought it at a Two Guys discount store about 1960 after checking out I don't know how many inexpensive rods. The weave was slightly visible through the orangy-brown finish. It had a simple reel seat, stripper guide, and five or six snake guides. Reddish wraps with some silver foil underwarp, but quite conservative compared with a lot of the gaudy fiberglass of the time. Two piece, 8' overall with plain metal ferrules, and a whitish plastic winding check. That rod cast a seven-weight line beautifully (a "C" line back then), and was my go to knockabout for more than 40 years, especially smallmouth bass fishing, and, much later, crappies. I replaced and added guides for better spacing at least twice. About five years ago, somebody stole it. With luck, that person is dead now since he never rose to the reward offer I made--no questions asked--to buy a modest complete outfit for return of this sentimental favorite. It even had my name written on it, but the lowlife still took it. Hopefully his backcast hit the powerline near the bridge where he was probably fishing when he swiped it, and he has been twitching on the wire ever since. Anyway, looking it over time after time, year after year, I always thought it was a pretty good rod compared, even, with more modern 'glass products. I continued to enjoy it even after having much more experience with a variety of rods. I rarely used another 7 weight in preference to that one. The fittings were cheap but I took care of that on rebuilds, and the blank itself seemed good quality in a nice moderate action. Fortunately, I still have the Pflueger reel I bought for it before a trip to Jackson Hole, Yellowstone, and Glacier National Park. Here is a photo of a photo that shows the rod, but not the guy who stole it.