I thought about commenting along these lines in my response to dudley, but since I have never used a cane pole from over 25 years ago, I decided to avoid that kind of discussion.

Perhaps dudley will read this thread and your post and take the opportunity to reconsider whether his comparison has any validity at all, and whether it is now time for him to "move on" from conventional gear to Tenkara where that is a better tool for the kind of fishing he does.

John