"Olebiker" wrote in message
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I had occasion this weekend to fish with a friend who owns several
Kistler rods. I noted that he had more money invested in two rods
than I had in my boat, motor and trailer.

I'm sure glad that I am a bottom feeder and have been perfectly
satisfied with my $35 Lightning Rods and Ambassadeur 5000s.

Dick "cheap" Durbin

Hmmm.... Lets look at it this way.

Can you catch fish with a broom handle and some old bread box string?
ABSO-FRIGGING-LUTELY. Can you catch more fish with a slightly better rod
than a broom handle with some string tied on the end? Most anglers would
say yes.

Can a slightly more expensive rod with the perfect feel for the application
catch more fish in the hands of an experienced angler. Probably.

Does a $400 dollar rod make somebody who hasn't got the experience and the
touch and the time on the water into a Kevin Van Dam or a Mike Iaconnelli?
ABSO-FRIGGING-LUTELY NOT!

Personally I think a lot of folks move up to more expensive rods blindly
because they think it will make THEM a better fisherman, where as I think
they should not be trying to upgrade until they KNOW what they are wanting
out of that more expensive rod.

It took me a while to learn that. I am just now beginning to learn how much
I don't know about fishing, and I'm finally starting to buy rods with very
specific needs and feel in mind.

5 years ago I could fish for anythign with almost any bait it would handle
on a 7' medium fast spinning rod, and I still thinks its one of those most
braodly universal rods on the market there is, but now I understand what a
spinner bait rod should do, and I am finally getting a handle on flipping
rods. Drop shotting is still a bit of a mystery to me so I still swuitch
back and forth between my med/light extra fast dropshot rod and my universal
rod for that, but I'm learning.

You may be a better angler than the guy you fished with, but that doesn't
mean you could not be even better if you had the hands and the touch to take
advanatge of having the best possible technique specific rods for you for
each way that you fish.

P.S. There are some pretty cheap rods out there that are very good for some
techniques, but you have to know exactly what you want out of the rod and
beable to identify it in the store. I've got rods in my boat that retail
for as low as $20 and as high as a couple hundred that are regulars in my
arsenal almost everyday I fish.

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Bob La Londe
Fishing Arizona & The Colorado River
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