wadding staff

This summer I fished with a fairly heavy set person using a Folstaff. When
we finished, it took the two of us about 15 minutes to get it apart. You do
not have the same problem with a Simms.


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"Sierra fisher" wrote in message
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This summer I fished with a fairly heavy set person using a Folstaff.
When
we finished, it took the two of us about 15 minutes to get it apart. You
do
not have the same problem with a Simms.


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I fished with a Folstaff as did my fishing partner. Neither one of us could
get either one of them apart. Returned it and now use an old ski pole. The
Folstaffs were, in both cases, birthday presents.

Good idea, just doesn't work

kg

From: "Kevin Gunther"

I fished with a Folstaff as did my fishing partner. Neither one of us could
get either one of them apart. Returned it and now use an old ski pole. The
Folstaffs were, in both cases, birthday presents.

I can be accurately described as "heavy set", and I have had no problem with
Folstaff. Simply keep the joints clean, apply a little parrafin from time to
time, and store the staff assembled and there should be no problem.

I used staff #1 for nearly 10 years and the elastic cord finally wore out. I
returned it to the manufacturer enclosing five bucks for return shipping, and
they sent me a replacement. I'm going on five years with that one without a
problem. Just requires a little maintenance.


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

On 03 Feb 2004 00:05:54 GMT, ojunk (George Adams) wrote:

From: "Kevin Gunther"

I fished with a Folstaff as did my fishing partner. Neither one of us could
get either one of them apart. Returned it and now use an old ski pole. The
Folstaffs were, in both cases, birthday presents.

I can be accurately described as "heavy set", and I have had no problem with
Folstaff. Simply keep the joints clean, apply a little parrafin from time to
time, and store the staff assembled and there should be no problem.

I used staff #1 for nearly 10 years and the elastic cord finally wore out. I
returned it to the manufacturer enclosing five bucks for return shipping, and
they sent me a replacement. I'm going on five years with that one without a
problem. Just requires a little maintenance.

But...As I inferred earlier...One time I waxed the ferrules on my trusty
Folstaff. Everything was hunky dory for weeks of fishing, until one day I
found myself in the Battenkill River at high tide with only a couple of inches
of freeboard and a staff that kept shaking itself apart in the torrent.

Not good at all. Imagine lifting the staff just enough to plant it a foot
further - as one does when inching along a stream - and have it separate every
fricken' time. And each time that happened the resulting Deep Water Two-Step
put me another couple of feet closer to a full swamping.

I was lucky to stay barely planted long enough to tie a bunch of knots in the
cord to make it tighter to hold the damned staff together to get me the F out
of the river...even while certain induhviduals had a good laugh at my
predicament! :-}

/daytripper (won't do *that* again!)

"Sierra fisher" wrote in
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This summer I fished with a fairly heavy set person using a Folstaff.
When we finished, it took the two of us about 15 minutes to get it
apart. You do not have the same problem with a Simms.


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There is a knack to separating a folstaff. Roll the stuck sections across
your knee for a rotation or two under some pressure, then separate them.
My shop owner taught me this before I left the store with the staff. I've
had to do this a few times, but haven't had any trouble separating the
sections.

Scott

"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
There is a knack to separating a folstaff. Roll the stuck sections across
your knee for a rotation or two under some pressure, then separate them.
....... I've
had to do this a few times, but haven't had any trouble separating the
sections.


Same for me. Maybe I just don't fish enough to really wear one out; but
I've never had a problem w/ mine. I'd buy another one tomorrow.

Joe F.

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 22:29:46 GMT, "rb608"
wrote:


"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
There is a knack to separating a folstaff. Roll the stuck sections across
your knee for a rotation or two under some pressure, then separate them.
....... I've
had to do this a few times, but haven't had any trouble separating the
sections.


Same for me. Maybe I just don't fish enough to really wear one out; but
I've never had a problem w/ mine. I'd buy another one tomorrow.

I used to have occasional problems, tried to do something to "fix" it instead
of improving my technique, and learned a life lesson:

Don't never lubricate the joints in a Folstaff!

/daytripper (btdt, nearly drowned myownself in the Battenkill! =8-O

In article ,
daytripper wrote:

I used to have occasional problems, tried to do something to "fix" it instead
of improving my technique, and learned a life lesson:

Don't never lubricate the joints in a Folstaff!

Do you really mean this?
Or do you mean dont ever lubricate?

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deserves neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin
"Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security
ultimately will lose both" - Abraham Lincoln

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 23:49:47 GMT, steve sullivan
wrote:

In article ,
daytripper wrote:

I used to have occasional problems, tried to do something to "fix" it instead
of improving my technique, and learned a life lesson:

Don't never lubricate the joints in a Folstaff!

Do you really mean this?
Or do you mean dont ever lubricate?

Poetic license, but yeah, greasing the ferrules - like "crossing the streams"
- would be bad.

/daytripper (with a semi-obscure GhostBusters reference...)

daytripper wrote:

Poetic license, but yeah, greasing the ferrules - like "crossing the streams"
- would be bad.

/daytripper (with a semi-obscure GhostBusters reference...)

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