Bendy vs. Stiff

One man, two rods.

Cast at the same time, same line on both, and same line length.

Bendy rod: Berkley Grayphite 8 feet 5/6
Stiff rod: Sage TCX 690
Line Rio tournament Gold 5 weight

To make up for the difference in length, the rods where taped together so the tips where aligned.

Tom Hanks on Winston's Answering Machine

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Artist by Nature

Short documentary on master rod builder Gary Lacey. 

The Rods of Lyons

Gordon Wickstrom profiles Lyons Colorado based Michael D. Clark, the man behind South Creek Ltd. custom handmade rods.

LINK (Via:The Boulder Reporter)

Could the future of fishing rods be triangular?

After 30 years of making prosthetic hearts and artificial blood vessels fly-fishing physicist Dr. Chris Underwood realised he could adapt the same technology to develop his D-Flex rod technology

D-Flex’ technology allows the manufacture of rods with an over-emphasised ‘spine’, meaning they are significantly stiffer bending one way than the other.

According to Underwood, the D-Flex cross section reduces stress loading, making casting control easier, more accurate and significantly more powerful, and can be used to make rods for fly fishing, spinning, waggler fishing, distance casting and even pole fishing.

LINK (Via: Go Fishing)

Stranded fisherman rescued, hangs onto new fly rod

Somebody should give this guy a rod sponsorship.

"I told him to drop the pole as I was trying to help him, but he wouldn't," Cipollo said. "He said he just got it.

LINK (Via:The Times Union)