In article , Tom Nakashima
wrote:


Any traditionalist out there fly-fishing with the cane rod?
-tom

I now nearly always fish with cane - usually a Hardy 8 foot Palakona
(with a silk line on a perfect reel), but more recently I've started
again using a wonderful rod, a 6' 3" rod made by a long-dead rod-maker
called Lance Nicholson, from Dulverton, on Exmoor in England (where, I
think, Lorna Doone got married.) (I also use silk for that, on a Hardy
lightweight reel.)

I used to fish a lot on the Barle that flows through Dulverton, a
beautiful river filled with small wild brown trout, that sometimes has
a run of salmon at the end of the year.

My Sage carbon rods are better, frankly, but somehow the cane rods are
more fun. And many years ago I had some casting lessons from Andrew
Murray, the Hardy's professional. I remember him saying then that
although carbon is more efficient, cane is kinder. And he ought to
know.

Lazarus

One thing, though, to anyone starting out. I wouldn't advise using cane
any longer than 8'.