seems to me your test here is narrowly-focused on utility. what works
best. knowing you in passing though, i believe you to have an
appreciation of art. bamboo rods surely ain't mystical, but their
history and creation does give them a "soulful" quality for anyone who
appreciates individual craftsmanship - and i think you do. it's not a
crock to esteem and value such things, or even to prefer to utilize
them. it may be a "crock" if one pegs the value only on utility...
but, if that were the case, you'd be chunkin a wal-mart spinning rod
into silver creek wouldn't you?

once, my dad, us marine corps master/gunnery sargeant robert l. miller,
ordered me to sweep out the garage. he gave me an old kitchen broom to
do the job. when he left me in the garage, i immediately discarded the
old broom and located the huge push broom my grandfather used in his
sweeping and i then used it. sgt miller, on his return, angrily chided
me for "always looking for the easy way". i hated him and his comment
then, thinking it a "crock"...but, you know, he mighta had a point.

rlstf (still lookin for the easy way, and, despite le frotteur's
attempts at fomenting disharmony, where i post has *nothing* to do with
who i value as a friend)



rw wrote:


I prefer to use equipment that performs well, requires little
maintenance, and is economical. If someone wants to delude themselves
about the mystical, soulful superiority of their bamboo flyrod, that
they recently dropped a wheelbarrow of bucks on, and that they love to
fondle in the firelight below the mantle holding their other antiques,
that's fine with me, but it's a crock.