At 02:51 PM 5/30/2010, you 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. > >-- >Cheers, Gene
I make all sorts of cane fly rods, from a 6' 2 wt, up to a 9' 10 wt. There just isn't the feel in a modern glass or graphite rod that you get using a natural material like bamboo. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
