Reuven Segal
So dear Tony..do you see a future for bamboo tenkara rods? Won't have to
deal anymore with those pesky guides and wrappings :) R On 10/08/2014 1:23 PM,
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So dear Tony..do you
On 8/11/14, 12:54 AM, Reuven Segal wrote:
And you still managed to catch fish? I didn't know they had braided
line 'way back when'.
Actually, braided lines were all we had. That was before monofilament
was invented.
Heck, that was before TV was invented. And Oldsmobile was just coming
When we used to fish the trophy area below Table Rock Dam, we'd see what we
called fish slappers standing less than five feet apart on both sides of the
outflows from the fishery. They'd have just about the length of the rod out
just keep drifting a fly through the current, lift slap it back
Back in the early 50's, my father actually made three bamboo surf rods from
straight bamboo.
He tied the guides on and the Penn reel was held on with hose clamps.
The handle was nothing more then black electrical tape rapped around the base.
I actually remember him catching eels in the Hudson
Alan (who needs another L in his name) said:
When you are poor and don't have any expendable cash, you find ways to
make what you want.
But we didn't realize we were poor. Nobody else had any money either.
You did with what you had or could get for next to nothing. I think
bamboo 'poles'
FREE FOOD but I wouldn't eat those eel's.
My dad used to go out on a party boat after work on Friday nights and come back
just around dawn with Blue fish they caught.
I hated that also. Very oily and fishy tasting.
phxflytyer
Phoenix,AZ
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Tip is much finer for one thing.
Also with the taper on the rod much easier to cast line that with a cane pole.
Rick
On Monday, August 11, 2014 2:45 PM, Jack Lehman jklepo...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Dem's Fightin' Words!!
Actually, just kinda sorta. With Tenkara, you are actually using a
I grew up with 10 foot long bamboo poles with very fine tips..about the
same in size as the ones on my 5 wt fly rod. There was a line, tied to the
very tip and half hitched down about a foot for strength, that we cast
out, and often didn't use a bobber as then the worm (Yikes..we were bait
Jimmy D. 77
Tony Spezio --85
Denny Conrad--79 3/4
Allan fish--78
Don Ordes - 63
Peggy Brenner - 65
Nev Gosling - 68
Wayne Blake-Hedges - 54
Jerry Caruso - 66
Dan harrington - 63
Reuven Segal - 38
Ron Boutin - 64
Alan Di somma - 71
Walter Shockley - 65
Gary Webb - 67
Jimi - Desert
Jack Lehman wrote:
a two ounce, telescoping rod
And therein lies the major difference. Those bamboo shoots could get mighty
heavy before the day was over.
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On Aug 10, 2014 2:26 PM, Jimmy D. Moore ray...@earthlink.net wrote:
Jimmy D. Moore ray...@earthlink.net wrote:
Sorry to be so late and messy
Tore ligament in left wrist and hard to type.. If you don't show and
know you're on the list, jusst add your name and age again.
When we used to out to Reelfoot lake when I was in college they had a couple
rows of cane poles on the porch of the bait shop. Being more sophisticated
than the locals we use our spinning gear. Still can't explain how those folks
with the cane poles always ended up with a bunch of slabs,
Jimmy D. Moore wrote:
Jimmy D. Moore ray...@earthlink.net
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Sorry to be so late and messy
Tore ligament in left wrist and hard to type.. If you don't show and
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Hello old and not so old farts;
Who ever is in charge of this list, please change my last name from Harrington
to Harriman.
It would surely be nice! LOL!
Thank you,
Salty Dan Harriman
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Heck fire, Salty. One of the moderators mighty be able to do that. Lemme
see.? Oh. That would be Jimmy D., me or Who's that third guy? Now I
remember. Some guy that calls himself Salty Dan.
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On Aug 11, 2014, at 9:17 PM, Dan kc5...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Hello
jerryp...@comcast.net wrote:
Still can't explain how those folks with the cane poles always ended up with
a bunch of slabs, while we caught the 8 to 12 inch crappie.
They used bigger miners closer to the stumps.
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