Sweetness and light
Away from the water, you probably don’t assemble your favourite rod and swish it about. It’s unlikely you’ll have seen it since the last time you fished. It’s a good one and it cost the best part of £900. It was designed by the best in the business, weighs nothing, doesn’t require any maintenance and casts effortlessly. It’s not especially interesting to look at but who cares — it’s the quality of the fishing that really matters, not the tackle, surely.
While most fishing is done with superb, affordable carbon-fibre rods, a stubborn minority appear to think that fishing with split cane places them in a more sensitive, poetic milieu. Are they rather fey eccentrics, these cane lovers, or is there some real substance behind the enduring appeal of these rods?
It’s worth noting that America’s most engaging, thoughtful and popular fly-fishing writer,
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