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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
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Posted: Tue Aug 20 10:37:45 1985
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> 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