12-15-2008, 02:31 AM
I'm sure there are some of those red transluscent rods kicking around. Fly fishermen are, as a group, loathe to give up their tried & true equipment. Or maybe it's just that with a sport that's remained virtually unchanged in nature for more than 600 years, there's a reluctance to jump on to the latest, greatest, newest whatever.
You may or my not remember (I'd never ask a lady her age) that when graphite was first introduced, spin- and casting-fishermen jumped on it, while us reactionary flyfishermen---who actually benefit from its properties more than the others do---took a wait and see approach.
Until WWII there were still Brits using greenheart rods. Might even be a few still doing so, for all I know.
Silk lines, in the old alphabetic classifications, were preferred by many old-timers in the U.S. well into the 60s and 70s.
In the mid-60s, when Arnold Gingrich's The Well Tempered Angler was published, he was still talking about matching midge rods to HEH and HDG lines.
And aren't you glad we don't have to remember what that means, anymore!
I usually don't argue with people over their choice of equipment. But one of those dinosaurs once tried to convince me how much better silk is (matched to bamboo, of course) over the modern "plastic" lines. I asked him if he still made his own horsehair leaders, too. Didn't endear me to him at all.
Brook
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You may or my not remember (I'd never ask a lady her age) that when graphite was first introduced, spin- and casting-fishermen jumped on it, while us reactionary flyfishermen---who actually benefit from its properties more than the others do---took a wait and see approach.
Until WWII there were still Brits using greenheart rods. Might even be a few still doing so, for all I know.
Silk lines, in the old alphabetic classifications, were preferred by many old-timers in the U.S. well into the 60s and 70s.
In the mid-60s, when Arnold Gingrich's The Well Tempered Angler was published, he was still talking about matching midge rods to HEH and HDG lines.
And aren't you glad we don't have to remember what that means, anymore!
I usually don't argue with people over their choice of equipment. But one of those dinosaurs once tried to convince me how much better silk is (matched to bamboo, of course) over the modern "plastic" lines. I asked him if he still made his own horsehair leaders, too. Didn't endear me to him at all.
Brook
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