Fred Taylor’s Split Cane Coarse Fishing Rod: 10ft 2pc “J J(?)W”, split cane with lined bridge guides, wrapped green with full intermediates. Aluminium sliding band reel seat on 22ins cork handle. CB Note Reputed to have been used by Fred Taylor, MBE a personal friend of Richard Walker and a consummate countryman, Fred was responsible for 18 books on angling. 2018 is the centenary of his birth.