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)
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card.
                -- Dennis M. Ritchie

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