Is there any advantage in a spey rod?

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:31:51 +0000, Lazarus Cooke
wrote:

In article , Peter Charles
wrote:

Penny dropped.

SNIP


Give it a few years Lazarus and, except for some UK diehards, we'll be
back to only one type of rod.


Yes, it took me a while (I've only just seen the two posts where you
explained it) to realize that we've been arguing at cross-purposes.

I think, though, that for once a certain amount of light was generated
along with the heat!

Very interesting. Thanks for the discussion.

I must admit that I tend to the European tendency of being ridiculously
old-fashioned (I still fish (sometimes) for trout with cane and silk),
and I fish fairly elderly Bruce and Walker salmon rods. For some
reason, while most British fishers like Hardy for trout, there's been a
tendency - probably encouraged by the great recent writers on salmon
such as Hugh Falkus - to favour Bruce and Walker for salmon.

I haven't fished the new salmon rods. I only fish my Sage 3 8 9s
because I was once in "City tackle" or something like that in New York,
and the owner persuaded me to buy one. One of the best purchases I've
ever made.

:Lazarus


If your interested in reading a bit more about the North American
approach to these rods, the http://speypages.com/ is a good place to
start. Dana is a Canuck working out of BC and he fishes the Thompson
among others, for steelhead through much of the year. There are some
videos on the site, describing various casts.

Ed Ward's article is a pretty good explanation of the evolution of the
North American Skagit style casts.
http://home.att.net/~slowsnap/spey16.htm



Peter

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