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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

I have several dozen rods stacked in the corner of the den, roughly half
of them are bamboo, and the other half are composites (lumping graphite,
boron, fibreglass, and nano-titanium together). If I seperate them into two
piles, guess which pile is worth way more than I paid for it, and which pile
do you suppose has deppreciated by more than half?

Charlie,
(and that's not what I like best about them)

I have several dozen rods stacked in the corner of the den, roughly half
of them are bamboo, and the other half are composites (lumping graphite,
boron, fibreglass, and nano-titanium together). If I seperate them into two
piles, guess which pile is worth way more than I paid for it, and which pile
do you suppose has deppreciated by more than half?

Charlie,
(and that's not what I like best about them)

I have several dozen rods stacked in the corner of the den, roughly half
of them are bamboo, and the other half are composites (lumping graphite,
boron, fibreglass, and nano-titanium together). If I seperate them into two
piles, guess which pile is worth way more than I paid for it, and which pile
do you suppose has deppreciated by more than half?

Charlie,
(and that's not what I like best about them)

rw wrote:

JR wrote:

I don't think there's any error in your preferring graphite. As you say,
good for you. You seem intent, however, on claiming at every opportunity
that bamboo rods are inherently inferior.

Every opportunity? Are you joking?

Your disdain of cane and the misguided folks who "delude" themselves about
it comes up here about as often as the subject of bamboo itself comes up.

You've been asking me DIRECT
QUESTIONS about why I dislike fishing with bamboo rods.

Would someone here please ask Steve why I shouldn't ask him direct
questions.

What am I
supposed to do? Ignore you?

No comment.

Wayne Knight baited me in a good-natured, joking way, and I replied in kind.

See? Yet another opportunity you just couldn't ignore.... g

btw, I think you've just tried the wrong rods. I've got a 7.5ft 4wt
Thramer I'm looking to sell....

JR

rw wrote:

JR wrote:

I don't think there's any error in your preferring graphite. As you say,
good for you. You seem intent, however, on claiming at every opportunity
that bamboo rods are inherently inferior.

Every opportunity? Are you joking?

Your disdain of cane and the misguided folks who "delude" themselves about
it comes up here about as often as the subject of bamboo itself comes up.

You've been asking me DIRECT
QUESTIONS about why I dislike fishing with bamboo rods.

Would someone here please ask Steve why I shouldn't ask him direct
questions.

What am I
supposed to do? Ignore you?

No comment.

Wayne Knight baited me in a good-natured, joking way, and I replied in kind.

See? Yet another opportunity you just couldn't ignore.... g

btw, I think you've just tried the wrong rods. I've got a 7.5ft 4wt
Thramer I'm looking to sell....

JR

JR wrote:

Would someone here please ask Steve why I shouldn't ask him direct
questions.

You have every right to ask me direct questions. Just please don't
complain when I answer them.

btw, I think you've just tried the wrong rods. I've got a 7.5ft 4wt
Thramer I'm looking to sell....

I'll pass. I have all the rods I'll need for quite some time.

BTW, I skipped the Silver Creek trip after I looked at the weather
report. COLD! It will have to wait until after the election.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

JR wrote:

Would someone here please ask Steve why I shouldn't ask him direct
questions.

You have every right to ask me direct questions. Just please don't
complain when I answer them.

btw, I think you've just tried the wrong rods. I've got a 7.5ft 4wt
Thramer I'm looking to sell....

I'll pass. I have all the rods I'll need for quite some time.

BTW, I skipped the Silver Creek trip after I looked at the weather
report. COLD! It will have to wait until after the election.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

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

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