BBW ... you'd almost think so! And though I've not used a rattan grip, I do have a beautiful birch bark grip, that you'd think the same thing of. But it's not. It's incredible how it warms in your hand, and isn't slippery at all!! Guess if the rattan grip wasn't any good, they'd not be still building them after how many hundred years!!
Trouts don't live in ugly places.
A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.
Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.