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CreationBear wrote:You gentlemen who are already using 10-foot light-line rods need to join the Tenkara Nation, post haste: once you realize that that $70 flyline is really your enemy, your journey to the Dark Side will be complete.

...Ummm... already there... http://streamtime.blogspot.com/search/label/Tenkara... and the Tenkara isn't allowed in competition... yet.

Roadkill: The LL was built using graphite II while the VPS-Light was made using Graphite III. Same taper, different actions. A buddy of mine is all about rubbing my nose in it because he has the "original" and I have only a pale imitation... pffft. The VPS-light is still a beautiful rod, no matter how you slice it. I just wish the components in it were better quality. If you come across a blank or two in your travels, let me know.

Aaron

Aaron,

I just checked my 490 LLB and it has Graphite III stamped on the blank.

Cool site Aaron .......but trying to click on any of the recommended sites up on the right there (including this one), did me no good. Server could not find anything.

This one jumped out at me on the cane board this morning:
http://clarksclassicflyrodforum.yuku.co ... ond-extras
(No connection with seller, of course, but this is Old School the way it was meant to be.

Pretty cool alright.....

I just checked my 490 LLB and it has Graphite III stamped on the blank.

Yeh they did bring out the LL in the 3rd Gen graphite. There are quite a few out there in various wgts and lengths. Love my 905

Since some of y'all seem to be on the lookout for LL's (again, no connection with the seller):

http://clarksclassicflyrodforum.yuku.co ... -LL-and-RP

At any rate, my experience with Sage is limited to the late, lamented 389 LL, but along with the Winston LT's, that's as good as graphite gets.

I'm going retro this year, with my 35-year-old Fenwick FF805, matched with a Pflueger Medalist of the same vintage. I reclaimed the rod from my ex-wife, who co-opted it when I taught her to fly-cast while we were dating. The reel is the same one I have been using all along. It's amazing how forgiving the old hollow glass rod is, and with a double-taper line, it roll-casts like a dream.

It's amazing how forgiving the old hollow glass rod is, and with a double-taper line, it roll-casts like a dream

There are a lot of great glass rods being produced now from folks like Mike McFarland and Mark Steffen (and from what I hear, the new Scott's are great as well)--but it's hard to beat Jimmy Green's Ferallights. I've got a FF-70-4 that stays in my pack next to my Tenkara rod at all times, and I'd love to get my hands on the elusive FF84 and "elusive-er" FF83. No doubt the old Winston glass rods with their Fisher lineage would be great as well.

Yup! I've been saving my spare change towards an 8ft3in 2pc. 5/6 wt Steffen build. Got the Fenwicks & luv em!