rods

[Steve Dally]

After 7 years of casting lots of rods and trying to come up with reviews and words to describe them, Ive come to a few conclusions. We actually don’t have the language to do it, and it doesn’t really matter.

What the rod designers/engineers (pretty much every company has 1 or each to do the job of making a rod) use is basically useless to those outside the company/fraternity. Generally they are using their own company standards, as opposed to comparing to other brands, ie winston fast isn’t sage fast.

The rest of us mere mortals, even professional rod testers, battle for the terminology to describe what we are feeling. A lot of FF, including the initial poster, really want a definitive way of comparing rods.
Which is why you got the CCS system, did I spell that right, its an engineers system which puts me to sleep anytime it pops up on the screen.

My mother happened to be a wine buff, a serious taster, so I got to hang around that crowd a lot (drank some great wines) but Im no serious taster (swiller might be a better term). But

[Simon Chu]

🙂
Well said mate.
Nice and simple….You’re an aussie arn’t you? 😉 ;D

Only by casting a heap of rods will you eventually find one that “speaks” to you and if pride of ownership is part of the  purchasing decision then all the more pleasure you will get from owning it.

I love to try different rods… my problem is I luv em all! ::) 🙂

[yuhina]

(Don’t try to be rude… just “my own opinion” here)

Two things that people are often messing up in flyfishing.

[Rich Kovars]

I agree.

I hope my tone didn’t come across as argumentative in the other thread.

[Steve Dally]

Ok has anyone else had a “server busy” message when trying to post the past few days. had a hell of a time tryin gto get this or any other post on the board.

even a simple Gday to my Kiwi mate simon

so that is why this is on its own, whenactually it was meant to be, and fianlly became a post in the rod action thread.
oops

but i did enjoy the responses 🙂

[yuhina]

I have,

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