Orvis Shooting Star Bamboo Fly Rod 9' 2/2 #9 6'4" The 5 1/2" grip is

The 5 1/2" grip is turned to a blunt cigar

this was pre ~2001 before he stared using mahogany spacers) and oxidized cap & ring

Serial number SS10501

published in The New Yorker magazine in 1987

Orvis Shooting Star Bamboo Fly Rod 9' 2/2 #9 6'4" The 5 1/2" grip isAn Orvis Shooting Star bamboo fly rod, 9', 2 piece, 2 tip, and built for a #9 line. Serial #47312. The rod weighs 6. 6 ounces on my scale. Medium slow full flexing action. Very light use with some grip soiling and minor cracking at the ferrule wraps. The ferrule fits are good and the rod is straight. Impregnated cane with a chestnut oven color and three up nodes. The wraps are brown. There are three carbide strippers on the butt and chrome snakes and