George Adams wrote:
From: rw


I'm not picking on JR, as others have made similar sets of remarks...but, I

am

really confused. In roughly 30 years of fly fishing, with an assortment of
rods, I have broken exactly two.


rods, I have broken exactly two. One, I closed a garage door on and the

other I

stepped on in a drunken moment in a boat. Never, in the course of being on

a

stream, has any rod ever broken on me. I don't understand how or why one
should.


Same here. I've broken two rods (actually, the same rod, twice), both by
accident and not in the course of fishing.


Me too. Been fishing a long, long, time, and have only broken two rods, (last
one in 1975), both by carelessness.


George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller

Wow...I wish I could say the same. I have broken 4 rods, one of them
three times. And none of them the same way. This season's casualties
were on the same day...one in an unexpected fall while scrambling the
boulders of Box Canyon and the other on a backcast hitting a twig on a
bush behind me (Fall river - catch the irony?).

Of note - I was in the same boat when a 6wt Sage was broken on a 25" hog
rainbow on the Kenai. Shannon, an experienced fisherwoman, did not do
anything obviously abusive and was fighting the fish with style when it
splintered. We ended up netting it nonetheless...very nice fish but not
the biggest of the day!

tight lines

RAC