Old vs. New. Bamboo vs. Graphite, Boron, & Glass. DTvs.WF. RHW vs. LHW. Broad-minded vs. Narrow-minded.

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BlackHillsBill		#41	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2842 06/16/2009 18:34	Rod? Fly? Who am I to bicker? Take your druthers. I'm proud. Hunters may have cornered venery. But bamboo fly rod fishers clearly have the edge on ribaldry. Last Edited By: BlackHillsBill 06/16/2009 18:38. Edited 1 time.
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bobbeegee		#42	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2798 06/16/2009 18:36	BlackHillsBill wrote: To get a little better measure of your worthiness to remain (a) on this forum, (b) on this thread, or (c) on the damned island how about this? You're still stranded. Same island. With same Ginger and same Mary Ann. But also with a Pinky Gillum. Which or whom would you discard? Motives likely will be self-evident anyway and therefore require no elaborate explanation. What a predicament! Well, this is what I would do Mr. Bill. I would sell the rod to Mr. Magoo, so that I might have the moolah to curry favor with both Mary Ann and Ginger. The sun, the ocean breeze, pina coladas, tanned smooth skin.......oooo la la, beats a Pink Lady or a Pinky Gillum to this day! BobbyG Go Heels!!!
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BlackHillsBill		#43	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2843 06/16/2009 18:40	See what I mean? We've learned to go with our instincts. Wherever they are and wherever they lead. Last Edited By: BlackHillsBill 06/16/2009 18:52. Edited 1 time.
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tim simbari		#44	[url]	[-]
Posts: 388 06/16/2009 19:24	DrakeBob wrote: Seriously. You're stranded on an island with Ginger and Mary Ann. You're going to get picky? And I'd like to point out that despite their predicament, they are both wearing heels. That does it for me. It's really rather simple. If you're out there, you want to deal with a seasoned veteran or go on a training mission. Break out the cuffs and get ready to play "held for questioning".... no?
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Southbranch		#45	[url]	[-]
Posts: 428 06/16/2009 19:46	It's been so long, I forgot who wears the handcuffs.
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kimk		#46	[url]	[-]
Posts: 668 06/16/2009 19:54	Ginger or Mary Ann --- why is this an either/or question? AgMD
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Flyman615		#47	[url]	[-]
Posts: 3272 06/16/2009 19:59	DrakeBob wrote: Seriously. You're stranded on an island with Ginger and Mary Ann. You're going to get picky? And I'd like to point out that despite their predicament, they are both wearing heels. That does it for me. Oh, yeah. When I left my college dormatory in 1968, this was the apparent question for the ages. And it still is. Everything else pales in comparison. Love the heels! Best regards, Flyman " Individuality is the salt of common life. You may have to live in a crowd, but do not have to live like it or subsist on its food."
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mac7x		#48	[url]	[-]
Posts: 869 06/17/2009 00:19	After further consideration, definitely Ginger. Those looong legs.......
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Titelines		#49	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1426 06/17/2009 09:38 Admin	levertonhatches wrote: How about -- wooden vs aluminum bats? Imagine The Splinter with a trampoline-action aluminum bat. Imagine what we've missed. Wood or aluminum boats? Mark Si vis pacem, para bellum.
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Pete from MA		#50	[url]	[-]
Posts: 51 06/17/2009 10:16	Although I have an aluminum 12' SPORTSPAL that is a wonderful fishing canoe. I prefer a wooden boat. I love when its finished in a way so that you can see the grain of the wood.
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BlackHillsBill	We are sober men and true, and our saucy boat's a beauty!	#51	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2847 06/17/2009 10:21	On the Island they're all standing in what appears to be a wooden boat. On consideration, that's not much of an endorsement, is it? However, Noah also used wood and, except for a termagant wife, could transport nearly anything in it comfortably. Imagine if either had been made from aluminum how noisy it would have been. On the other hand, some people (I know of one on this forum, a man of considerable discernment whose last name is Grouse) prefer aluminum reels which have to be "fixed" to run silently, using a process the rough eqivalent of what they do to obtain steers in Dakota ranch country. Wooden reels have a built-in naturally quiescent attitude of course, but also one seemingly insurmountable drawback: fast rot. That is probably true of boats as well. If you look closely at the boat on the island--at the boat, I said!--you can see signs of decay. And then there's the matter of taste, for which, as we all know, there is no accounting. ( Hmm. Looks as if our sober and true boaters who were momentarily aboard have gone down to the sea, river, or creek in their ships. Attentive to some higher duty no doubt. Funny, though, I didn't see them on the canned beer thread.) Last Edited By: BlackHillsBill 06/17/2009 18:55. Edited 2 times.
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BlackHillsBill	And Now a Topic Back by Popular Demand	#52	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2850 06/17/2009 19:57	Weighing Your Line vs. Watching Paint Dry.
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DrakeBob		#53	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1377 06/17/2009 20:09 Formerly Drake	Now, just a second here. 10 grains is a ton of difference and fishing is about science and technology, no? Piscator Non Solum Piscatur
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bobbeegee		#54	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2803 06/17/2009 20:09	BlackHillsBill wrote: Weighing Your Line vs. Watching Paint Dry. My backyard coyote's thoughts on the subject...... bobbyg Go Heels!!!
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DrakeBob		#55	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1378 06/17/2009 20:15 Formerly Drake	I'm with the coyote unless we're talking about a particular line company mis... uh, never mind. Piscator Non Solum Piscatur
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BlackHillsBill		#56	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2851 06/17/2009 20:20	You don't suppose the coyote would agree to adoption or becoming a mascot, do you?
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bobbeegee		#57	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2804 06/17/2009 20:53	BlackHillsBill wrote: You don't suppose the coyote would agree to adoption or becoming a mascot, do you? I think he might be up for the mascot role Bill. That was his main thrust in forcing the San Diego Chicken to hang up his over-sized chicken booties or have his tail feathers chewed to splinters. Bob p.s. No prejudice toward any particular line manufacturer Bob. In coyote-speak he confided he never met a line that was coyote-uglier than another! Go Heels!!! Last Edited By: bobbeegee 06/17/2009 20:55. Edited 1 time.
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BlackHillsBill	Update on "Weighing Your Line vs. Watching Paint Dry"	#58	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2855 06/18/2009 11:59	"Watching Paint Dry" has established a definitive lead over "Weighing Your Line" and should probably win in a walk. Unless there is a sudden spike in interest by forumites spurred on by our ardent forum line weighers, we could be forced to turn attention here to other urgent issues of the day, none of which comes readily to mind at the moment. 6-20-09: Well we gave it a pretty good ride. And it's kind of restful now to know that The Little Forum That Time Forgot currently has a sparsity of issues (or at least a quasi-paucity of them) so that everyone can get in a little problem-free fishing. If you're at peace with a quasi-paucity, so is this thread. Zzzzzzzzzz (sound effect either for snoring or for a non-silent-check reel feeding out line to a fish). Last Edited By: BlackHillsBill 06/20/2009 14:55. Edited 1 time.
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wb4tjh		#59	[url]	[-]
Posts: 516 06/20/2009 21:11	blacknosedace wrote: All the late talk about old and new, dt and wf, and so on reminds me of an article I read a while back about a small (actually, very small) subset of golfers who insist on playing the game with wooden handled clubs (handmade) and handmade balls not engineered to fly to the moon. They play on courses that can be charitably described as sheep pastures. And they love it. The mainstream golfing world looks upon them as the family oddballs. Imagine that. One guy, when interviewed, did not pontificate on this being a "better" or "purer" form of golf. He simply said that it was a lot more fun. Sound familiar? Anyway, gotta love those golfers because they constitute a large group of people not out there cluttering up trout streams. I also enjoy playing golf when I can't go fishing, and I often play with modern persimmon woods being made today by Louisville Golf. The "wooden" handled clubs you refer to are hickory shafted clubs, and they predate steel shafted clubs of the 1920s. There is a big group nationally that holds tournaments where only hickory shafts and persimmons woods are allowed. It's very similar to fishing very old bamboo rods. The skill it takes to make those clubs is not unlike what goes into making a fine bamboo flyrod. I don't play any hickory shafted clubs, but I do appreciate the craftsmanship, skill, and feel of a real persimmon wood. It's not that unlike the reasons many of us love bamboo flyrods. Each is the product of a master craftsman honing skills that have been passed down for generations from one artisan to another. Take a look at the Lousiville Golf website and you will see a lot of similarities in what they make, and how they make it to what we love about bamboo fly rods. I feel the same way about fine Kentucky and Pennsylvania long rifles. There are craftsmen today who are still making these beautiful guns like they were made 200 years ago. I think there is a longing in many of us for times that were more simple and not so hurried and mass produced. I know bamboo rods help fulfill that desire for me. Bill Anderson, Sarsota, Fl. "Bamboo is the Benchmark in flyrods".
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caddisman3	Re:	#60	[url]	[-]
Posts: 569 06/21/2009 12:35	Dylan or Springsteen
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