Speaking of breaking rods, a friend of mine is a die hard bamboo rod person. He owns a number of boos, several made by the same person who made one for me. Anyway, my friend was at a show last year and someone was selling bamboo rods. He asked if he could cast one of them. He likes to and can cast a lot of line (he cast 90 feet using my rod and did so easily). So, he stripped out a lot of line and started false casting and broke the rod. The seller supplied him with an other rod, (bad mistake) and my friend also broke that rod when he had a lot of line out. Obviously the seller needs to make a better bamboo rod.

Larry ---sagefisher---