Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site alberta.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!alberta!dyck From: dyck@alberta.UUCP (Terry Dyck) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Re: graphite fishing rods Message-ID: <616@alberta.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 10:37:45 EDT Article-I.D.: alberta.616 Posted: Tue Aug 20 10:37:45 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 01:51:30 EDT References: <770@udenva.UUCP> <195@pyuxii.UUCP> <309@harvard.ARPA> Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Lines: 22 > In general, graphite fishing rods are much more fragile than > fiberglass rods and don't react well to non-fishing forces. If you > catch a graphite rod in a closing car door, it will break while a > fiberglass rod will probably not break. > Marty Sasaki net: sasaki@harvard.{arpa,uucp} > Havard University Science Center phone: 617-495-1270 > One Oxford Street > Cambridge, MA 02138 Any graphite rod that is more fragile than fiberglass is probably a mixture of graphite and glass. Very few of the so called graphite rods do not have fiberglass in them. I am very happy with my Berkley. It survived being caught in a car door, and being whacked hard against a rock at about -20 degrees while ice fishing. No fiberglass rod would have survived. Terry Dyck University of Alberta ihnp4!alberta!dyck