"My
favorite rod for fishing with micros is the 7.5 - foot, 2.5 ounce Paul Young
Perfectionaist calibered for a 4-weight line. There are other bamboos just
as suitable, but what I want is a rod with a slow casting cycle, so I can
'paint' the fly on target. The current preoccupation with speed-of-recovery
in space age materials, boron and graphite, is in one sense mis-leading: it's
fabulous when you need to get a fly out fast in front of a cruising tarpon,
or bang a Polar Shrimp at a far-off steelhead, but when trout are rising
in pockets of silky water between weed sweepers, the last thing I want in
a rod is speed. Teacup accuracy with a controlled turnover at distances up
to 40 feet is much more realistic."
"McClane's Angling World"
A.J. McClane (1986)
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Jimmy D. Moore - Scout Exec. BSA (Ret.), TOWA, TF&G Contributor, GRTU -Past VP. Past Pres. McGregor Rotary. Freelance Outdoor writer, humorist and half-assed Texan.
Author - "MOON HOLLER MISFITS Fishing & Hunting Club", ©
http://home.earthlink.net/~rayado/rayadoflyfishingflypatternstips/index.html
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"Being able to read trout streams is just as valuable to a fly fisherman as the ability to read a defense is to an NFL Quarterback."
Jimmy D. Moore - © [2004]
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