The Return of Fiberglass Rods (fixed)
The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast
James Hathaway
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2014
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
**This is a fixed version of "The Return of Fiberglass Rods". The originally posted version contained an editing error.**
We’ve had a lot of requests to do a podcast on fiberglass fly rods, but I wanted to wait until the Orvis rods were in stock before I did one. The Orvis Superfine Touch Fiberglass are now in stock and on our web site, so this week I cover the basics of fiberglass rods: A little history, some brief technology notes, and why you might want to at least test cast a fiberglass rod to see what all the fuss is about. They are not like the glass rods you remember from the 60s or 70s!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast with Tom Rosenbauer, |
| 0:07.0 | bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most of your time on the water. Here's your host, acclaimed fly fishing |
| 0:15.3 | author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenberg. |
| 0:19.3 | Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast. This podcast is being |
| 0:26.7 | recorded on December 31st 2013 so happy new year to all of you loyal podcast listeners it'll be new year |
| 0:37.6 | before you hear this and this week we're going to talk about fiberglass rods. |
| 0:44.1 | A lot of people have asked about fiberglass rods |
| 0:47.5 | and why they might want one, what do they like? |
| 0:51.3 | So we're going to talk about fiberglass rods in a little while, but first |
| 0:55.6 | we're going to do the podcast where we answer some short or relatively short questions |
| 1:00.5 | from listeners. |
| 1:01.5 | Hi Tom, this is Andrew Nelson from Mountains of West Virginia, questions from |
| 1:03.4 | Mountains of West Virginia, Colleen. I have a quick question for you on your kind of your weekly |
| 1:09.7 | media consumption. I know it's pretty easy to tell listening to your |
| 1:13.0 | podcast. I'm sure you're flipping through the drink and TU and catch magazine and |
| 1:19.1 | some of those things. So those are pretty self-evident, but as far as like the research articles that you kind of like to |
| 1:26.0 | stay up on can you recommend to your podcast listeners just sort of a couple good journals |
| 1:31.2 | to keep your |
| 1:33.0 | eye out for or some of the more scientific |
| 1:37.0 | media pieces that you like to follow to stay on top of some of that |
| 1:40.0 | without getting obviously too technical or too deep into the scientific |
| 1:44.5 | method part of it but just maybe a couple good research journals that you like |
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