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 "Everything
I had heard was true. Split-cane is magic. It lives.
I did not just cast the rod, I had
a conversation
with it. We became a team. It was like a well-bred
horse. I had to be careful not to spook it with sudden
jerky movements. I had to pay attention to its mood.
The rod turned the line over smoothly and I watched
the leader and fly land. The drift required a mend
and to my surprise with a simple roll of the tip, the
soft-action split-cane mended my line upstream without
causing the fly to skip, backhop or make a ripple.
By the third cast I had hooked an eighteen-inch rainbow.
The cane bowed gracefully like the neck of a swan as
I played the trout."
–
Cast Again: Tales of a Fly-Fishing
Guide, by Jennifer Olsson |
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