On 6/1/2010 5:42 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: > On 05/31/2010 08:19 PM, Dave wrote: > >> Here in the new world .... in the midwest USA, old, IMO, is anything >> over 100... ;-) The house across the street from me was built in the >> 1840s and rebuilt in 1910 (since it was getting old then), it is sort of >> a house within a house. >> >> That house is considered really old around here. When my sister >> bought a house a few years ago, she insisted on a new one.. Now her >> house is 12+ years old and considered an older house by many ... (not >> me.. ) >> >> I've been to Rome where I seen the shopkeepers often hold open the doors >> with a piece of carved Roman column. Some there, would consider your >> parents farm relatively new! >> >> I was running Ubuntu 8.04 but that was pretty old (2 years! ). So I >> started using 9.10 (less than a year old). But that was getting old, >> so I loaded up a copy of 10.04. >> >> So it is all about perspective I suppose. :-) >> >> FWIW, I'm not sure they actually had fly rods 150 years ago. >> >> Dave >> > Dave, > > Fly rods and fly fishing, in one form or another, have been around > since ancient times. A little more recently, Dame Juliana Berners (sp?) > wrote one the first books on tying and fishing with flies. Course, that > was England, back in the middle ages... ;-) > > Mark > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > I know what you are saying, but I have looked at some of the really old rods in museums, and like the one I have, the older they get the less they look like a modern fly rod.
The reel on the rod I have looks more like a modern an ice fishing reel to me than a fly rod reel. Also, notice that the tip hoop come out straight from the rod. Not exactly conducive to casting line freely through the guides ?? Fyi, I have lineage going back to fisherman who lived on England's southern coast. :-) Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
