At 03:14 PM 5/30/2010, you wrote: >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 ;-) > >Dave
God sez the time spent fishing is not subtracted from one's life... Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
