On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 12:51:44 PM Dave did opine: > Sounds like a good idea. :-) > Looks like you can get some good deals on Ebay! New, some custom > bamboo fly rods are crazy expensive. > That one you linked even still has the spare tip! Nice. > > Dave > I think I'm in the wrong business. In the 60's, we could buy, for about a tenner, 9 foot, spare tip, Chinese bamboo rods. One caveat, you had to hang them up by the tip. Lean them in the corner and the next time you reached for it, it had a very pronounced curve that took 3 days or so to straighten. With a #9 WF line on it, they swung effortlessly and I could lay a little green popper bug, or a #4 fly within a foot of any rise within 25 yards of where I stood. No glass rod I have ever owned since can make that claim with the same automatic reel & similar line. They simply do not move as one continuous extension of your arm like bamboo does, too light, and too stiff.
Truly, in fly fishing, bamboo is where its at. One of those old rods survived long enough for me to take it fishing on the San Juan River just below Navajo Dam in the late 70's when I was the CE at KIVA-TV in Farmington NM. Nothing beats pulling on chest waders in 110F heat, standing waist deep in 38 degree water, with the air temp above that water somewhere around 110F, and have a 12" Brown grab your barb-less fly and find the energy to dance for you for 2 or 3 minutes before finally getting a grip on him to unhook and release him. Your hand will feel like its frozen and he is almost as hard. Firm, truly wild trout. I can, after having done it several times, understand why the sports rag writers are literally orgasmic when they write about that, the most famous 3 miles of trout water on the planet. A long ways from enough civilization to have a pop machine, and the ice in your cooler will be long gone by the time you get there, it is never crowded even on a busy day. And, considering that all the kokanee salmon you can snag is just 5 miles away in the lake itself, a fisherman is truly in hog heaven there. [...] 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) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> If an experiment works, something has gone wrong. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
