Yes! Just because something is considered old fashion doesn't mean it quits working. I still poles and reels ,I bought in the 70's and they still great.

does anyone use fiberglass rods anymore?

 
Golly Gee Willikers does that question ever bring back some long ago memories.  I remember the catalogs; J.C. Penney, Sears & Roebuck, Montgomery Ward, etc. laying open on the neighbor's kitchen table.  The folks were flipping the pages back and forth, passing the catalogs around to each other and talking about........... fiberglass fishing rods.   Back in those days, the internet didn't exist so, information about new outdoor sports products usually came from a 'department store catalog', word of mouth (from someone that got a catalog before you) or, a trip to Re-Arm Sports Center down the alley between Liberty  and Buffalo St. in Franklin, PA.  Ahh those were the days, going with dad when he went for his hunting license(dad didn't fish), the smell of gun oil and nitro solvent hitting your nose before you were three steps in the door.  Than there was the loud mouthed salesman who knew anything about everything and he wanted everybody in the store to know it when he was answering your question.  Dad would avoid that dude like the plaque and always responded "just looking" when approached which,  brought about the response "Wellllllll  just let me know if you need something".  Not sure what it was dad would mutter each time but, I think it had to do with the South end of North bound horse.  
 
Sorry..... got caught-up in the moment, back to the table full of catalogs where the buzz centered around Fenwick vs Shakespeare etc.
 
Fast forward to the dawning of 'competitive bass fishing' and me being trusted to hold my own fishing rod without fear of me tossing the rod when I felt the tug of a fish as the bobber disappeared.  Hey, I wasn't about to get 'stung' by no catfish that might be on my fishing line, no wayyyyy!  Anyway, who doesn't remember the Fenwick "LunkerStik"?  Man-o-Man that was the rod to have if ya wanted to be known as an angler, that is until the newbie, a combination of graphite and glass came along and it had a lifetime guarantee not to break.  I still have the two rods I bought when Shakespeare introduced the "Ugly Stik" back, I believe in 1976.  Bought em at Delkampers in Meadville, PA. even though I still lived in Franklin I chose to not shop locally, I didn't want to deal with that loud mouthed dude either!
 
To make a long story short.................  yep I still use those rods especially when I troll, pulling long leaders behind dipsy divers using 4 lb test or, more. 
 
 
 
I gotta go, it's Sunday.........  I have this hankering for a big plate of overcooked eggs, extra crispy bacon, burnt toast and, fish!
 
 
Have a good week and tight lines to all............

btdt, i share similar experiences.  not so much the catalogs but the spring issues of outdoor life, field and stream and sports afield.  remember the tri-fold ads for all the new and established mitchell reels and conolon rods every spring?  in my neck of the woods, the youngstown vindicator would run ads for consoldidated dept. store every thursday.  i could not wait to see what was on sale.  every memorial day they would sell the old mitchell 300s, made in france, for 9.99.  in the late spring they would put their conolon 'star' rods on sale.  that, through the late 60s and into the 70s, was where i spent hard earned money and fed an addiction.
 
today, consoldiated is gone. so are the conolon rods and french made mitchells, but as jigs said, they were good enough then, why not now?i'll continue to watch ebay for a 7' medium power rod for hybrids.
 
funny, but as far as the old stuff goes, i still carry a box of cp swings and a box of cp swings in my vest or sling pack.  as expected, they continue to catch fish quite well.

Fer crankin yea.

lol....i had one conolon and a 300 that never left my trunk.  i kept it wrapped up (no rod cases for these back then) and when i finally passed it along to a buddy, it still looked like new.  that outfit put many holes in the mouths of walleyes over the years.  what i wouldn't give to have that rod back.
 
again, i love my graphite rods but just as is the case in music, the glass rods were a different instrument altogether.