Wayne Knight wrote:

Coming from a scientist type, that objective measure thingie there is a
joke. By your subjective measure perhaps. Graphite rods have it over cane in
cost, the weight difference for most is a non event.

Weight is a very big event for me.

What you fail to grasp
is the performance of a well made cane rod is always better than graphite
and the durability of cane, is often better than graphite,

Not intending to steal Daytripper's thunder, horsepucky.

I'm confident that a graphite rod could be manufactured to replicate, to
an imperceptible difference, the action of ANY bamboo rod. Of course,
that's not done, because the design parameters of bamboo are far more
limited than those of graphite, so why settle for something inferior? As
to durability, I'll concede that graphite rods are more prone to brittle
failures, but the nearly universal availability of warranties makes that
moot. Just carry an extra tip if you're worried about missing some
fishing time. The convenience of the lack of care demanded by graphite
rods vs. bamboo rods more than makes up for it, IMO. Ride 'em hard and
put 'em away wet.

It's revealing that a self described gear whore is the champion of
bamboo rods. If you get so much satisfaction out of stacks of expensive,
mostly unused gear, more power to you. Each to his own. Just don't try
to convert me to that point of view. The actual fishing is the main
event for me. Gear is merely a means to an end.

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