Wait 'till you catch your first fish on it.
About the cane, I keep my $ by refinishing older rods. If you choose to go from culm, I'm sure there's more than one way to go about it frugally.
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God Blesses!
A wing & a Prayer! ----*<(((><~ ~ ~ ~
Quinn
"I envy not him that eats better meat than I do, nor him that is richer, or that wears better clothes than I do; I envy nobody but him, and him only that catches more fish than I do." Izaak Walton
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