On 5/30/2010 2:51 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. > > Careful Andy ..... fishing and religion are closely related ;-)
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