On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Scott Seidman wrote:

impossible. What you'll find with experience is that there's a trade off.
You'll always be dealing with avoiding streamside brush, and that a short
rod can help with that. The flip side is that line control is very
important to achieve a drag free drift with dry flies and a dead drift with
nymphs, and a long rod makes these things much easier.

I actually like a longer rod for small streams for dapping and bow-n-arrow
casts.

Mu