JR writes:
Ha ha ha! I have broken WAY more graphite rods than cane. Also, when
I've broken a cane rod, I have always known why (put a bit too much
shoulder to a fish; caught the tip on a branch at the moment of netting,
etc.). I have never had a cane rod snap for no apparent reason,

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. 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. I do fish graphites, with the exception of one little fiberglass I own,
and have done very little fishing with bamboo,although I can see the latter as
being inherently a bit more fragile in some ways than the synthetics, in other
ways more resilient. It just seems some folks break a lot of rods and I cannot
fathom why.
Tom