Do other fishermen you meet think you're eccentric?

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kimk		#21	[url]	[-]
Posts: 437 09/10/2007 20:01	I suspect most folks think I'm just plain nuts, but I doubt it has anything to do w/ my bamboo rods. AgMD
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baunvivant		#22	[url]	[-]
Posts: 90 09/11/2007 23:45	Definitely eccentric but it may be because I take a minimalist approach -- so it makes me stick out even more. I don't wear a hat or sun glasses and I traded my vest a few years ago for a green canvas Israeli paratrooper bag, which i picked up off ebay for $14 bucks. I love the bag -- it is a poor man's substitute for those English fishing/game bags that I would love to one day own. The freedom these bags and their higher class cousins offer are ideal, at least for me, because I can move around better and it just feels less constricted.
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Bill trout		#23	[url]	[-]
Posts: 73 09/12/2007 09:57	Sure I get those looks all the time. I use a short 3wt cane and carry a Hardy Brook bag. Nothing more is ever needed where I fish.
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Cane Head		#24	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2069 09/13/2007 00:34	Asked me this question about 17 years ago and I would have said a resounding "Yes!" Only other person I knew that fished cane was Bruce Hadley. My fishing partners constantly chided me about the fact I used out-dated rods but put up with it. Now a days, with the "wired" fly fishing community, I feel most conventional anglers expect to run across a cane weilder at some point in time. Way more interest in it now than 17 years ago. I think where they look at you as an eccentric is in using a 6wt rod since the average line wt used today is at least a 4wt. Cane Last Edited By: Cane Head 09/13/2007 00:36. Edited 1 time.
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Danny S		#25	[url]	[-]
Posts: 38 09/13/2007 05:39	Can't say I've had the strange looks, but one guide has seen me twice with my Payne 100 taper in the last few months. Yesterday he asked what it was and I told him. His comment was "that is a very nice looking rod." A few months ago he saw me casting it and had pretty much the same comment. I asked him if he would like to cast it and he did. After casting it a few times, his comment was "Sweet!" Seems the only people I come across who notice I'm fishing with a cane rod are those who are already familiar with them. I can thank CaneNut for getting me started on bamboo rods. If he had not offered to let me cast one of his one day, I may never have started.
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canenut		#26	[url]	[-]
Posts: 487 09/13/2007 08:57	When I offered Danny S a test cast of my W&M GV8040, he said something like, "I'm afraid I might like it and then what would I do?" Pretty soon he ordered a rod from Mike Brooks!! The trout takes the fly, the line tightens and it's like I was blind, but now I see.
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wb4tjh		#27	[url]	[-]
Posts: 218 09/13/2007 11:29	I was at Bennet Springs, Mo., some years ago with a friend from Memphis. I was fishing my Leonard 7.5', 5wt. Duracane when I ran into a gentleman fishing a Payne 8 footer. We struck up a conversation and then we traded rods for a half hour and I got to cast my first and only original Jim Payne flyrod. I remember that I got so much into the casting, that I actually missed a fish. It was a real memorable experience to have a chance to actually have one in my hand for a while. What a marvelous casting instrument it was. He said he pretty much kept to himself while fishing, but when he saw me with a bamboo rod, well, naturally a friendly conversation was inevitable. That has been some years ago, but I can still feel how easily and sweetly that Payne cast a long line with a narrow loop. I guess it was a case of two kindred bamboo souls just happening to meet on the stream and mind-meld for a while over a common love. I know he liked my little Duracane too. I do remember the rest of the trip, I probably bored my friend talking about how sweet the Payne was. Of course, he went to an FFF conclave a few years later and darned if he didn't win a Bob Summers bamboo at the raffle. Some people have ALL the luck....
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amazingwoody		#28	[url]	[-]
Posts: 114 09/14/2007 19:17	Will little Augie Cloozoe please stand up? "Far from being able to tie a fly, I can barely unzip one." John Voelker
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BlackHillsBill		#29	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2239 09/19/2007 09:23	Eccentricity rolls off my back, as it does from the back of Sir Kenneth of Hereford, who says he certainly hopes he's eccentric. Let's not tell him, okay? He's getting too far along in years to keep playing these games of wish-fulfillment. Typical conversation while astream: "Hey, buddy, isn't that a bamboo rod you have there?" "Very observant. Yes, this is a bamboo rod I have here." "Bet it was expensive." "No. I skimmed from the grocery money and also stole funds set aside for my wife's birthday trip." "Does it help you fish better?" "Not really. I'm about as good as I'm going to get. But when I fish it I'm never lonely. Now for instance. If it doesn't draw company, then I just have a conversation with it." "You talk with your fly rod?" "Of course. All the time. You mean you don't? Come to think of it, I guess bamboo is more loquacious." "Well, what do you say to it?" "Mostly things like, 'Ha! You could never do that drag-free without my help!' or 'Damn it! Have a little regard for that ponderosa behind you!'" "I see." He looks uneasily at his graphite then carefully edges away, retreating in the direction of his car. Last Edited By: BlackHillsBill 09/19/2007 09:37. Edited 1 time.
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Ken M 44		#30	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1865 09/19/2007 10:02 Immoderatus Britannicus	Eccentricity rolls off my back, as it does from the back of Sir Kenneth of Hereford Bill - perhap's is has more to do with 'our' sense of 'normal' Oh and welcome back!
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spruce grouse		#31	[url]	[-]
Posts: 751 09/19/2007 11:17	Well last year I was up in Alaska for some early season rainbow and salmon fishing. In arranging the trip I told the lodge owner that I was planning on fishing bamboo. Maybe he thought I was rich or really expert (of which I'm neither) but I got the head guide for most of the week. While I used graphite for most of the rainbow fishing, I caught my biggest 'bow on an 8'6" Phillipson PowerPakt. I had brought an 8'6" Orvis Shooting Star (8/9 wt.) for sockeyes but they weren't in yet so I ended up fishing for kings with the rod. There was a fly shop owner there leading a bunch of sports he had signed up for a trip. When he saw my rod he looked at me like I was crazy and said that it was too slow to handle salmon and would likely break anyways. I handed him the rod and told him to give it a shake. He quickly changed his mind. I said if I got a salmon big enough to break the tip it would be worth it, and besides, I had another tip to use. That salmon I brought back home with me sure tasted sweet.
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Armchair Angler		#32	[url]	[-]
Posts: 6 09/19/2007 12:41	I don't get very many inquiries when I'm out. Could be that the rod I use most often is pretty dark, so maybe it goes unnoticed (which I prefer). Although about 6 or 8 years ago, when I was coming out of the woods with another bamboo rod, I passed a middle-aged guy who asked me, in a very friendly tone, how the fishing was. Before I could answer, he noticed the rod and became visibly annoyed and said, in a Huff, "what-cha doing with that?!" and walked off. I look pretty young without my beard so I guess he figured that I was a trendy rich kid. He didn't know it was an old hand-me-down, but bamboo does scream Expensive to some people (and apparently, it ticks em off).
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wctc1		#33	[url]	[-]
Posts: 155 09/19/2007 21:04	When peddling my book {sold out} to every fly shop I drove by, I found a curious curosity about cane rods. Mainly "they" didn't know anything about them. But!! After a session with my basics, and my bumbling exhortations of the wonders of cane, some of them actually placed book orders. And I know one fly shop, after careful research, placed an order for three presentation level rods for folk that could easily afford them. So, yes, "we" probably are an odd lot - fly fisher wise; not quite Benny Hillish, but certainly in the Monty Pythonesque crowd of fly fishers. Good rises, Monsieur JHector And speaking of someone who needs to "rise," what about Monsieur C's Amazing Woody tale? And what about "Amazing" Woody's before Yupperland life? After all, Amazing Woody is Ed Wood. And I have it from one of the three that there were huge movie posters from the 50s framed, signed, and lipped kissed red by voluptuous beautiful women extolling his pre-flyfishing poweress in arts not mentionable here. And then, allegedly after kicking a dog off his cot, one compadre, not able to sleep came to the central room and found an old diary full of letters from Hollywood, addressed to one Ed Wood .... Forsuth, was there a reason the alleged Amazing Woody made an escape to Yooperland? Only to fly fish? Mewondermunts continue in this most obscure tale of fly fishing, strange visitors from afar, and old life print offering clues to an adventerous life among starlets. Yes, we need to know about Amazing Woody and his 1953 Buick convertible; and all that ...
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lestrout		#34	[url]	[-]
Posts: 184 09/19/2007 22:18	For a couple of decades now, I have been tape recording notes on the stream. I keep the device in a chest pocket and just push the Record button when I talk into it. To most, it looks like I am fumbling with a bulging pocket. To most, it sounds like I am talking to myself, which I guess that I am, even more than most real self talkers. After all, I get to hear myownself all over again at any time, along with the miscellaneous splashes, rushing water, bird calls, bugling elk and (my fave) screeching reels. I'm getting so I can identify which reel I'm listening to by the unique purr/whirr/buzz of the drags. So is this eccentricity? It is unusual, however. I have met many ffishers who jot down journal notes, and even some that will sit down and render a pencil sketch. But never a fellow taper. I highly recommend the practice. A couple of times, I run across types that look up to no-good. I used to get along with the moonshiners in the Smokies, but these days the young'uns with meth labs and 'juana farms seem awful possessive and kinda paranoid. When they see/hear me, they always turn around and vanish deeper into the woods, which is fine with me. Next time, ought I query them and ask them if they think I'm eccentric? tl les
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wb4tjh		#35	[url]	[-]
Posts: 222 09/20/2007 13:17	I'm beginng to think that asking one of this group to define "normalcy" would be akin to asking the patients of a state mental hospital what the word "sane" means. It's all madness, sweet madness.
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wanders540		#36	[url]	[-]
Posts: 3 09/21/2007 19:38	Went to Montana in July Oh WOW! Anyway floated the Yellowstone with a guide. My wife was fishing graphite inherited from me, and guide's rods were all graphite. We stopped and waded for a bit on some nice water, and I offered the bamboo to the guide to play with. His face lit up, and he said " Man, I was really hoping you'd do this!" He said he'd never cast bamboo before. Once I got him to slow down a little, the smile was great.
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