On Aug 26, 7:33*pm, Wayne Knight wrote:
On Aug 26, 1:08*pm, wrote:



but this is most unlikely.

In 1996 I picked up a Garrison rod and in 2007 picked up an original
Edwards Quadrate, both at second hand stores. Ya just got to know what
you're looking for.

Oh, there is no doubt that it is possible, merely unlikely. Also, if
you have to ask on this group, and run the usual crazy gauntlet of
clever ****es who ridicule you and your question immediately, then it
is most unlikely that you "know what you´re looking for".

Any reasonable person would simply assume that the guy just doesn´t
know anything at all about bamboo rods, and give him as much
information as possible on the matter.

It is many years now since I fished with bamboo rods, I never did like
them much, although this has as much to do with the fact that I could
never afford ( actually "justify" would be more accurate), a really
good one as anything else. In the meantime I have used, or at least
cast a fair number, mostly belonging to friends etc, and there are
some very very nice rods around. Indeed I recently cast a beautiful
Brunner rod, but it is in my opinion only suitable for short range dry-
fly fishing, and at about 10,000 Euros, ridiculously expensive. I even
built a couple of cane rods once, but they were awful, so I gave them
away. One lad I know still fishes with one he got from me.

To me a fishing rod is just a fishing rod, and I tend to go for what I
think is the best suited to any particular task.Bamboo rods are simply
not suitable for many of the techniques I use, and even if I had the
money to waste, I wouldn´t buy one anyway.

Of course there are lots of people who love cane rods, and everything
associated with them. That too is just fine with me. Each to his own.