On Sunday 30 May 2010, Andy Pugh wrote:
>On 30 May 2010 12:32, Mark Wendt (Contractor) <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> YouTube at: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFqM_3r4vMs>.
>
>I love that all that technology and modernity is making something as
>pointlessly old-fashioned as bamboo fishing sticks.
You I take it, Andy, have never used a bamboo fly rod, or maybe do not even
fish, which is even sadder. They have a feel all their own, and I was never
more accurate at laying a fly on top of a rise that hadn't had time to fade
than with a bamboo pole. And I caught more fish with it than with all the
others I have had since. All of the modern glass and carbon fiber poles are
way too quick and stiff, making you use heavier weight lines to slow them
down. I looked a long time for the 9' glass one I have now, and it still
needs a #9 weight line, and I would gladly trade it for another copy of a
bamboo pole I bought from Hecks in Rapid City SD, 47 years ago for only 20%
of the cost of that glass one, at $12.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
The notion of a "record" is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column
card.
-- Dennis M. Ritchie
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