The World’s Largest Fly Rod: A true community art project

In the 1980s, tourism promoters in British Columbia encouraged cities and towns to develop a roadside attraction or landmark that would draw visitors.

Some of the communities that took on this challenge went for the record books: The World’s Largest Gold Pan resides in Quesnel, the World’s Largest Cross Country Skis flank the visitors’ centre in 100 Mile House, and the World’s Largest Hockey Stick and Puck, originally commissioned by the Government of Canada for the Expo 86 World’s Fair in Vancouver, graces the front of the Cowichan Community Centre in Duncan.

Not to be outdone by its more southerly counterparts, residents of Houston, BC conceived of, constructed, and installed the World’s Largest Fly Rod.

LINK (via:Northword)

Comments

[Derrick Young]

I had no idea such a structure existed here in Canada. It reminds me of as a kid driving through the USA and stopping at all these road side type monuments. One that sticks in my head was a Giant Paul Bunion.
We are planning a trip west in 2014 and I think the photo op this presents is to big opportunity to miss.

Thanks for sharing it. ow just need to Hook a fish big enough to use that rod