.....I forgot to mention something .......... when I had the Dorber out in the yard casting the WF1 line........the quick damping of the tip bounce (oscillations) led me to believe (maybe mistakenly) that the Dorber was a more accurate casting rod since the tip wasn't throwing waves into the line. It go me excited to think how I might be able to throw small flies up into bankside brush and under overhangs because of the accuracy of the Dorber blank.

I'm "stoked" to get it on the water. The only way I'll be able to keep my hands off it tommorrow...and let the finish set...is to go on a long bike ride! 55 miles up into Southern KY might just do it!

David

Hey...just so it's clear......

#1. This is only a sport...it's FISHING for Christ's sake.

#2. Everyone has their own personal likes and dislikes and opinions. When someone asks me for a recommendation....I make it PERFECTLY CLEAR that they need to test EVERYTHING before they make a buying decision. There's a very good chance that someone will not like what I like and vice a versa. That's true for everything from fishing rods to bicycles to toilet paper. That's one reason that I've never paid much attention to gear review articles. It's all about personal impressions and preferances....and those vary considerably from person to person.

With that said...I'm outta here. I think I'll go fishing.

David

I did both Jerry.......55 miles on the road bike and hit the local creek for an hour until I got rained out. I'm a USCF Cat. 4 road racer and NORBA mountain bike racer. I'm no Tour rider but in the Summer I do get in some 300 - 400 mile weeks.

I meant that it's fishing.....not a life or death thing. For me anyway, it's a fun diversion from life's (and work's) pressures so that I don't think about the IED blast injured 19 year old soldier or the 23 year old father of 2 with burns to his hands and multiple fingers gone when his vehice exploded from an artillery shell.

David

I'm a mountain biker myself, been tagged twice by cars on the road and gave up my road bike (well, one of them that hit me was a motorcycle), and after 6 shoulder surgeries I've slowed down on mtn bikes too. I spend about 95% of my bike time on a rigid 29'er single-speed.
I was just giving you crap , but truth be told, for some of us this is a way to immerse ourselves in something to avoid all that other crap. I know several of the guys here are dealing with some pretty serious stuff, so this is a place to hang out and bury ourselves in the minute details of a very fun hobby. This diversion is pretty important for a lot of folks (and because of a chronic illness, I'm one of them). So try to understand if we seem a little too serious about this stuff, and we'll try to understand that not everyone sees it the way we do (although that's tough to do ).

"rained out"?? Unless there was lightning I didn't think there was such a thing as being rained out--fish like rain!

Take care!

Jerry

I like rain too.....very cooling....but when the creek turns to chocolate milk....and i hear thunder....its time to go to the truck and head for home.

david