On 6/1/2010 12:24 PM, Mark Wendt wrote: > On 06/01/2010 10:09 AM, Dave wrote: > > >>> 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 >> > Dave, > > back in the olden days, they really didn't cast their rods like their > more modern brethren. Lines back then weren't as good as the newer > ones. and were likely made of horsehair, and rather than casting they > sorta kinda used the rod like a whip, or flicked the fly/line to their > target, or just dapped the fly. That's the main reason so many of those > old rods were so long. > > And reels back then were there to pretty much just hold the line. The > more modern innovations that allowed folks to fight the fish off the > reel didn't come around till the 20th century. > > it was still fly fishing, though just done a wee bit differently. > > Mark > >
OK.. then that makes more sense since I can't see how I could cast a line out the tip of this rod as it would bind in the eye at the rod tip. Horsehair!! I had no idea... I thought they would have used cotton, flax or something similar etc. So when you needed more line you had to find the horse... Interesting... Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
