On Sunday 30 May 2010, Andy Pugh wrote: >On 30 May 2010 12:32, Mark Wendt (Contractor) <mark.we...@nrl.navy.mil> wrote: >> YouTube at: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFqM_3r4vMs>. > >I love that all that technology and modernity is making something as >pointlessly old-fashioned as bamboo fishing sticks.
You I take it, Andy, have never used a bamboo fly rod, or maybe do not even fish, which is even sadder. They have a feel all their own, and I was never more accurate at laying a fly on top of a rise that hadn't had time to fade than with a bamboo pole. And I caught more fish with it than with all the others I have had since. All of the modern glass and carbon fiber poles are way too quick and stiff, making you use heavier weight lines to slow them down. I looked a long time for the 9' glass one I have now, and it still needs a #9 weight line, and I would gladly trade it for another copy of a bamboo pole I bought from Hecks in Rapid City SD, 47 years ago for only 20% of the cost of that glass one, at $12. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The notion of a "record" is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card. -- Dennis M. Ritchie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users