On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:48:21 GMT, "Peter A. Collin"
wrote:

I can think of two. I was showing my first bamboo fly rod to two
friends. When I had my back to them, Mark said to Jay,"Now, Jay, the
cool thing about bamboo is - you see how it can bend WAAAYYYYY over like
this?" He then snapped a dry twig he was holding. I spun on my heel,
horrified, only to discover the ruse. It took a few minutes to bring my
blood pressure down!

Which reminds me of an incident during Wally's Spring Fling (3rd roff
clave). PJ Roberts had borrowed our distiguished trial lawyer's 3
weight rod to do some fishing on a creek that required a fairly long
hike to get to. It seems that the rod was "changed" somehow during
the time it left wayno's hands and the time it got back to clave
central. I will never forget PJ standing on the rear deck and telling
wayno, "Watch this!" as he made a casting move and the rod bent in a
rather unorthodox manner. The rod was broken, but it took the casting
action to point out the rupture in the graphite material. Apparently
PJ had hiked into the mountain stream, put the rod together, attached
the reel and strung the line, attached a fly, and made the first cast
before he realized the rod was broken.

His demonstration of the broken rod at clave headquarters later that
day was met with much laughter from all present, and finger pointing
between PJ and wayno.

Dave