Dry fly is posh. Dry fly used to consider wormers (particularly downstream wormers) as little better than poachers. Salmon fly is posh.

My carbon fibre has come down in price. I remember when a good hollow glass rod (I have one still, but haven't used it for decades) was dearer than a combination cane roach rod. The first split cane roach rod was the Fred J. Taylor, and focussed roachers derided it because of its slow strike, due to the progressive action. A roach cane would have the first two sections of whole cane, and then a split-cane or hollow glass top joint.

One of my best mates had a greebheart trout fly rod that had belonged to his grandfather, and the action was gloriously sweet if you could live with the weight.

A good split cane or greenheart rod is still a thing of beauty. Building them would not have been a folk art, since the materials and techniques would not have been accessible enough. A reed roach-pole with reinforcing whippings could have been, at least in areas where good reed was available.