12-10-2009, 04:26 AM
let me interject a question here.. mainly as devils advocate.. but..
if it were not for people like this guy.... thinking outside of the box where would fishing of any type be.. would we still be using only a lenght of cane with a line and hooked tied to the end of it.. hell when I was a kid I used a car antenna with line and hook tied to it on a small pond and caught small sun fish.. the first real rod and reel my dad bought me was a zebco rig.. it was awesome.. I could actually throw the line a distance and see what was beyond the length of my arm..
in the area of fly fishing.. without innovation and builders thinking outside the box we would not have the rods and reels that we have now.. its grown from a bamboo rod.. to glass.. to composites.. to a wide range of rods depending on what type of fishing and conditions one is fishing.. we have regular rods.. we have spey rods.. we have switch rods etc.. and its not only what the rod is mad of and for but we have tip flex, mid flex, full flex.. all depending on the anglers way of fishing and what feels best in their hand..
so to shut down someones innovation based on what it looks like seems kind of closed minded to me.. have you held one.. seen one.. ??? I know I havent... so why pass judgement on it without having at least held it and tested it???
innovation is the name of the game in any business.. is this rod going to end up being the next great thing ... I dont know.. but who knows what the future brings??
MacFly [cool]
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if it were not for people like this guy.... thinking outside of the box where would fishing of any type be.. would we still be using only a lenght of cane with a line and hooked tied to the end of it.. hell when I was a kid I used a car antenna with line and hook tied to it on a small pond and caught small sun fish.. the first real rod and reel my dad bought me was a zebco rig.. it was awesome.. I could actually throw the line a distance and see what was beyond the length of my arm..
in the area of fly fishing.. without innovation and builders thinking outside the box we would not have the rods and reels that we have now.. its grown from a bamboo rod.. to glass.. to composites.. to a wide range of rods depending on what type of fishing and conditions one is fishing.. we have regular rods.. we have spey rods.. we have switch rods etc.. and its not only what the rod is mad of and for but we have tip flex, mid flex, full flex.. all depending on the anglers way of fishing and what feels best in their hand..
so to shut down someones innovation based on what it looks like seems kind of closed minded to me.. have you held one.. seen one.. ??? I know I havent... so why pass judgement on it without having at least held it and tested it???
innovation is the name of the game in any business.. is this rod going to end up being the next great thing ... I dont know.. but who knows what the future brings??
MacFly [cool]
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