On 5/30/2010 6:19 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 30 May 2010, Andy Pugh wrote:
>    
>> On 30 May 2010 19:51, Gene Heskett<gene.hesk...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> Firstly, I fully understand why you would do it, I just find the
>> contrast between the technologies fascinating.
>> I built my CNC machine because I want to make a mechanical clock. It
>> is much the same thing.
>> After watching some Youtube videos to get a feel for what Mark was
>> doing I was almost tempted to have a go at making a rod myself, they
>>
>> are lovely things but:
>>      
>>> You I take it, Andy, have never used a bamboo fly rod, or maybe do not
>>> even fish, which is even sadder.
>>>        
>> You are quite right that I don't fish. I see folk sat by rivers
>> drowning worms and it baffles me. I can see slightly more attraction
>> in fly-fishing as it is more skilled and active, and there is all the
>> fly tying to obsess about, but I would hate to actually catch
>> anything, I am a vegetarian :-)
>>      
> That explains that then.
>
> But you miss out on catching a little 10" wild brown trout out of the San
> Juan River (yeah that's the one that Sports Afield has orgasms about
> occasionally), on a barb-less hook about #14 size.  Its mid July, at least
> 114 degrees in the air, the water you are standing hip deep in might be 34
> degrees, but your hand swears its 30 below while hanging onto that trout
> long enough to tease your hook out without hurting him any more.  Its a
> bottom discharge from Navajo Dam about 2.5 miles upstream, and the water is
> pretty rowdy upstream as it roils about picking up enough oxygen to support
> the fish.  From 600 feet deep in Navajo Lake, there isn't any oxygen, ever.
> A legendary piece of water, and anyone who likes to fish and can afford the
> trip should make it.  Standing there in hip waders, you just might look down
> and see a 3 foot brownie bump you as he drifts by.  But if you get lucky, he
> has to be released too, so someone else can tell the fishing story of their
> life too.  About a 45 mile drive from Farmington, I didn't get there near
> often enough.
>
>    

I have some very positive memories also of fly fishing (with my father's 
bamboo rod btw) in Yellowstone National Park when I was a kid.

I have an antique bamboo fly rod and reel I keep in my office..  bought 
it from a local estate sale.  It pre-dates anything I have ever used.

Dave

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