Good glass rods are similar to bamboo in that they tend to be soft and bend a great deal. You certainly get a lot more "feel" of the fish upon hookup than you will with a modern fairly fast graphite rod. Such rods are fun on smaller streams...........even in Wyoming. A really nice stream for such a rod are some of the smaller streams in Yellowstone Park; i.e., Firehole, Gibbon, Nez Perz, etc. In my opinion, that is.

Of course, I have a Winston 5piece little 3 wt LT Model which is a dream to fish the little streams too.