This is the first in a series of hard-hitting and incisive analyses of some of the major developments in the sport today. These detailed whitepapers are designed to provoke thought and stimulate debate… or, maybe it’s stimulate thought and provoke debate… well, maybe it’s just provoke… among you, the recognized cognoscenti and, as noted earlier, the final authorities on all things bamboo.
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In Defense of the 000-weight Rod
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I love my 000 weight. It has opened up a whole new world of fishing opportunities for me in that I no longer catch fish, I catch flies. I fashion a line from cobwebs I find along the trail to the stream, loads the rod beautifully. I really enjoy my particular 000 taper because it makes a Trico feel like a Hendrickson!
ReplyDeleteIt also makes a dace feel like a tarpon. It's about time somebody brought out tackle for the "average" fisherman. I do find it light for parr, but I'm sure Orvis is feverishly working on a version longer than 3 feet. No doubt, there are also 27 dozen bamboo rodmakers working on two-tip versions up to 4 feet, 3 and one-half inches. You know, "Small Stream Rods". Great for culvert work.
ReplyDeleteI understand that there were 3 Grangers made in similar cofigurations, and they are now being earnestly discussed elsewhere.
By the way, how many have been banned thus far?
ReplyDeleteTriple-ought rods? They should all be banned. Although I like the idea about making a trico feel like a hendrickson. :)
ReplyDeleteWait just a second... I happen to like my 000-weight just fine. It took me a while to get the timing down but then I remembered that this particular maker over-rates his rods by 1 or 2 line weights so I'm now looking for a 0000-weight line which I think will really make it come alive. Screw all that 'mass and inertia' stuff. The graphite boys have had it right all along.
ReplyDeleteAs I approach the Golden Years, I've (infrequently) come, to appreciate such flaccid action.
ReplyDeleteThough it won't load, even with silk,
the new "triple zero" is my only go to rod.
Percy Morehard-Longstaff
U.K.
My friends in the industry advise me that the driving force behind the development of the Ought-Weight rods is saltwater flyfishermen looking for a means of making the fight with coldwater trout feel more like the real fish they are used to.
ReplyDeleteOf course, in response to every one of those "Industry Experts" I have responded in vigorous defense of the game qualities of your salmo and char quarry. to wit.....Marine gamefish are ignorant brawlers, easily panicked in foolish behaviors based on speed and power. The noble trout, on the other hand, possess unique attributes honed over thousands of generations. These creatures possess intellectual powers so elevated that man has not yet devised a means of accurately quantifying. In example I give you their notorius dietary discernment; what other fish will rise to and refuse perfect specimens of living food struggling in the aqueous meniscus? As to piscine combat strategy it has been my universal experience that a trout, once hooked, relies on the highest strategic tactics and subterfuge. They cannily horde all their energy and strength until the precise moment arrives when physical exertion shall bring them victory. As proof of this fact I submit the following. 1) Skilled Troutsmen always use a net and never one of inadequate proportions for experience has taught them that the docility of their prey is inversely proportional to proximity to the fisherman's hand. 2) Once netted the trout becomes motionless. This creates two further escape opportunities. The first when the fisherman is gulled into complacency by the fish's utter lack of body motion contrasted by its rapid fibrillation of gills and mouthparts. "Aw, he's exhausted!" The second benefit of net immobility is that quite frequently the fisherman is unable to visually perceive the trout due to its lack of stature in the vast confines of the netting. 2) Whether fishing with net or netless every trout fisherman knows from experience that the most violent exertions of any trout are invariably saved for that instant when the piscator first believes he has the fish firmly and securely in hand. 3) The very latest research, not yet published, has proven that all trout species have a unique dermal organ system which has tentatively been labeled the "Acceloslymexcratorial Mechanism". This complex structure enables all trout species to produce a volume of 16 times the normal dermal film gel in under 31 milliseconds. In fact, studies indicate the the exretion rate is so great that without any adjunctive use of fin or body muscle a trout, upon triggering this reflex, will accelerate from 0 to 27 MPH in under 0.6 seconds literally "jet propelling" itself while at the same time depositing a glutinous residue on the hands/jaw/talons or claws of its would-be captor. I then rest my case and none yet have been able to respond in any way. All have turned and walked away speechless but wiser.
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