Kelly, Have you ever noticed how hitting a golf ball and making a cast with a fly rod are alike? The pause you make to allow the rod to load the line at yhe back is like the pause at the top of your golf swing. If you think about the song, "A Place for Us" it is like the rhythm of the song sung slower, "A place (load) for us. some where (load) there'll be.......
It is the same rhythm though bamboo fly rods will have you pause a tiny bit longer.
Funny you should mention that. One of my folks was a golfer and that analogy helped her a little!... but I think she might be hurrying her back swing as well .. Ha!
I have had friends whose back swing was really hurried. A fly rod and a golf club shouldn't be hurried. My late Mother wasn't a really big Gal, but her golf swing was beautiful and she could hit that ball quite a distance. She took her sweet time and paused at the top before she ripped through to that ball.
Kelly, I have two bamboo fly rods. One from Great Britain and a 3 weight that was made by a fellow who lives near Lake Hudson. They both are slow loaders and take several days of lawn practice, before they are ready for Prime Time.
I had my first intro to fishing with a bamboo rod last summer and I loved it. I'd love to have one, but also know that I'd use it rarely because my regular stuff gets so beat up! lol
Kelly, They do have a real retro feel. These were what was used before fiberglass rods! Yes, the rods we have today can really take a beating. I always think about the shotguns people had with such beautiful wood in their stocks, getting tossed into a boat and taken out to a Duck Blind and taken to where they would get marks and scrapes. And then, you have softer plastic stocks that are made in camo colors and you really don't give a damn about the way they look. They are built to take it.
Kelly, Have you ever noticed how hitting a golf ball and making a cast with a fly rod are alike? The pause you make to allow the rod to load the line at yhe back is like the pause at the top of your golf swing. If you think about the song, "A Place for Us" it is like the rhythm of the song sung slower, "A place (load) for us. some where (load) there'll be.......
It is the same rhythm though bamboo fly rods will have you pause a tiny bit longer.
Funny you should mention that. One of my folks was a golfer and that analogy helped her a little!... but I think she might be hurrying her back swing as well .. Ha!
I have had friends whose back swing was really hurried. A fly rod and a golf club shouldn't be hurried. My late Mother wasn't a really big Gal, but her golf swing was beautiful and she could hit that ball quite a distance. She took her sweet time and paused at the top before she ripped through to that ball.
Kelly, I have two bamboo fly rods. One from Great Britain and a 3 weight that was made by a fellow who lives near Lake Hudson. They both are slow loaders and take several days of lawn practice, before they are ready for Prime Time.
I had my first intro to fishing with a bamboo rod last summer and I loved it. I'd love to have one, but also know that I'd use it rarely because my regular stuff gets so beat up! lol
Kelly, They do have a real retro feel. These were what was used before fiberglass rods! Yes, the rods we have today can really take a beating. I always think about the shotguns people had with such beautiful wood in their stocks, getting tossed into a boat and taken out to a Duck Blind and taken to where they would get marks and scrapes. And then, you have softer plastic stocks that are made in camo colors and you really don't give a damn about the way they look. They are built to take it.