The modern period ha
new materials, and t
fly fishing as we kn
sport, although the
Glass-fiber rods fir
took a while for the
showed varying degre
Hardy's first glass
period in which glas
first carbon fiber r
plunged, reaching th
consideration in rod
fiber rod typically
nine-foot rod three
If anyone wonders wh
overnight, the answe
much the same as the
the fisherman few ad
on the other hand, a
split cane or glass.
the new material had
mass production and
offer any contest. C
eighties, although i
aesthetic grounds.
The Fly Line. As wit
was dominated by the
on these lines could
the invention of met
the PVC coating (and
greater flexibility
line.
The Reel. We are ver
gear, but is one sma
At the beginning of
find fly reels with
seen a surge of nost
designs appearing th
The Salmon Fly. In a
the field, hair-wing
transfer across the
significant influenc
many traditional pat
ties. The origins of
that North American
quills as long ago a
seems to have entere
the 1940s.
There is an interest
the hair-wing salmon
give up their affect
and it was commonly
well into the late 7
harder to find fully
a substantial market
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s been dominated by
here is no doubt tha
ow it would be unrec
basic principles wou
st appeared in the l
new material to be
es of enthusiasm for
fiber rod was built
s and cane uneasily
od followed in 1976.
e point where line w
handling. A modern
weighs around the po
and a half ounces.
y fiberglass did not
r lies in the table.
ir split cane equiva
vantages other than
pproaches half the w
Once the technical
been solved, carbon
neither of the older
ane was swept away b
t is making somethin
h rod development, t
development of new
be controlled to a
hods of altering the
hence its buoyancy)
than anyone had ever
y nearly up to date
ll piece of the jigs
the modern period, i
exposed rims. The la
algia, and it is fas
at imitate reels of
sign of growing Ame
ed patterns didn't t
Atlantic. The hair-w
e on British pattern
terns being adapted
the tube fly are le
native people tied l
s the nineteenth cen
d mainstream salmon
ing post-script to t
fly. Fishermen took
ion for the fully-dr
stocked by quite ord
0's and even early 8
-dressed flies, coll
in 'specimen-tying'
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the development of
t without plastics,
ognizable as a
ld be the same.
ate 1940's, but it
adopted. Suppliers
the material.
in 1954, and after a
coexisted, their
Rod weights
eight became a
fifteen foot carbon
und mark, and a
replace split cane
Glass rods weighed
lents, and offered
price. Carbon fiber,
eight of either
problems of using
fiber rods entered
materials could
y the mid nineteen
g of a comeback on
he post-war period
materials. The taper
precise amount, and
specific gravity of
gave the product
dreamed of in a fly
on the subject of
aw puzzle missing.
t was unusual to
st twenty years have
cinating to see the
a century ago.
rican dominance in
ake long to make the
ing had become a
s by the 1960s, with
to allow hair-wing
ss certain. We know
ures for salmon on
tury, but the idea
fly fishing during
he development of
a long while to
essed 'gaudy' fly,
inary tackle shops
0's. As it became
ectors moved in, and
began to emerge.
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