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Fly-fishing is challenging and inspiring. It draws anglers to wild and beautiful rivers in search of trout and salmon that are equally wild and beautiful (Davis 1). To most people the sound of a fish taking string is an annoying noise. To a fly fisherman, it is music. The sport of fly fishing has been around for many years, and is very relaxing. The fly rod use to be made of bamboo and sometimes it is still used. A rod has to bend and work equally well in any direction—up, down, sideways, across the flats, or across the corners. The early fly fishermen thought that only a round rod would bend in these ways. They rounded off the corners of their rods, but this cut away the most valuable part of the bamboo. The idea of building them of several strips of bamboo is quite old. They are now made of graphite or fiberglass. The fly lines are designated alphabetically—the nearer the letter to the beginning of the alphabet, the larger it is.
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