H'mm!
Mel,
don'tchya know bamboo tournament casters use bamboo?
Subject: Re: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAYI wonder how many tournament casters use bamboo today?
Mel Hocken"Jimmy D. Moore" wrote:
Alfred W. Miller, known to all as Sparse Grey Hackle, and known for the fine H.L. Leonard and Garrison split bamboo fly rods he fished, was not a fan of modern fly rod technology. Sparse, one fellow member joked recently at the Angler's Club, when are you going to fish fiberglass? The old man took a thoughtful swallow of straight Laphroaig, a special pot-still whiskey so strong it numbs the tongue. I'll fish fiberglass, Sparse muttered behind his steel rimmed spectacles, the morning after some concertmaster plays a concerto at Carnegie Hall on a plastic violin!- Ernest G. Schwiebert, "Trout" - 1975
