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To: Paul R.

I am sorry, just shows you I don’t know much about fishing rods.
Had to make one last dich effort, I put the image with the writing into google lens. This is what came up, a different manufacturer. Good luck.

The item in the image is a vintage fishing rod, likely manufactured by Heddon, featuring a water rub decal with model and sizing information.
Model Number: 1510.
Size Rating: 5.
Decal Style: Water rub decal, common on vintage rods from the mid-1950s onward.


79 posted on 04/18/2026 8:02:46 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: MomwithHope
Yes, and I did not mean to denigrate your effort in any way: I think instead it makes a GREAT example of why not to trust "machine" info. too far. Don't get me wrong -- AI searches can be incredibly helpful. But, Google Lens is not smart enough to know, for example, that info. in listings on eBay is very often flat out wrong. Robert Heinlein wrote about this sort of thing all the way back in "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress", one of my favorite sci-fi books of all (my) time.

Of course tho', he went further and came up with a "smart" machine that was (to enemies) dishonest.

More shortly - I see down-thread we may have a winner!!

82 posted on 04/18/2026 8:44:34 AM PDT by Paul R. (Old Viking saying: "Never be more than 3 steps away from your weapon ... or a Uriah Heep song!" ;-))
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