Going all old school

[comanche 3,038]

Nice read, well done.

Come back to us in another few sessions and I'll bet you've got the carbon back out .

I see it time and time again some of my customers trying their luck with the old split cane, doesn't last long mind, heavy old buggers those split canes. It's a bit like driving an old motor, the novelty factor is there to start with but after a few goes it like where's the PAS and the servo assisted brakes. Any way good luck MC

Ah but even a lot of split cane rods were actually rubbish foreign imports -even Woolies sold a split-cane fly rod in the sixties.! Get hold of a good one and its very different. Sure ,if you want to fish to the modern style you'll need modern tackle and not everyone actually has a suitably "organic" mentality for fishing the old way. The control you get from direct contact with a fish via a cane rod and centre -pin is amazing -not to mention the new skills aquired such as using your hand as a clutch,your arms as extensions of the rod and different styles of casting. Great write -up MC I was with you all the way .

[mackem 26,909]

Amen to that Comanche,some of us are just old-school purists in thought,mind,and deed

[mole catcher 1]

 

 

what a lovely set up there Mist Net looks to hold its own personality in looks, something the modern " has to look like carbon fibre" gear doesnt.