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Show No More Doubt With sufficient time having elapsed to prove the conclusion, there is no more doubt that the glass fishing rods for casting, spinning spin-ning and fly use have made a lasting last-ing place for themselves in the an-i gler's list of equipment. In fact, it is a tenable assumption that the. glass rods finally may displace the! metal rods altogether and seriously threaten use of bamboo. ' The reason for that is Instantly; obvious to the angler who has engaged en-gaged in extensive use of all three types of rods. It is simply a popu-' lar fact that the glass rod can take more abuse, requires less care andi attention than the bamboo and as yet has shown none of the tendency1 of metal rods to snap off while being be-ing used, oft times on a back-cast.1 This latter fault in steel rods is due1 to crystalization of the metal and it! pst-priced metal rods. Why is the glass rod superior? A fear ago, we examined the role the glass rod was beginning to play in (he angler's scheme of things and that article indicated the trend that, ivas to bring the glass rod to the ore. The fact that the top rod manufacturers manu-facturers in the nation are apparently apparent-ly placing more emphasis on the: glass rods and their development than on other types of rod is in-1 dicative of their confidence in the future of this type of fishing in-. Btrument. Now, a year later, we again checked fly rod development, this time turning to the Montague firm lor our information because these rod-makers have come up with an amazingly light and flexible glasij tod which, at the same time, shown1 no sacrifice of strength or durabiL'l Ity. - ; Ed Maquire answering our query j lor the Montague firm, wrote, in part: 1 "Holloglass coreless rods first ;ame out about eight years ago. ! They were the invention of a West' Doast scientist and seemed to worki jut very well on the West Coast. Unfortunately, when the rods came East and were subjected to the cli-pate cli-pate around Cape Cod, they became be-came very brittle and broke by the lundreds. "During the war, duPont devel-. jped a special treatment for glass j farn that guarded it against climatic cli-matic effects with the result that 1 fishing rod made of glass became) practical and the first solid glass rod was developed in the Middle Vest. , ' "This same specially treated yarn' was then used by both the solid glass and the tubular glass manufacturer. manu-facturer. "We first started experimenting with solid glass about three and one V. ' , .. .5 , our own method of turning out a. solid glass shaft. "The experiments were carefully supervised by Montague experts and only when we came up with a shaft that met the exacting action which Montague had come to expect from bamboo did we stop experimenting. About a year and a half ago, Montague bought the oldest fiberglass fiber-glass low pressure laminated corporation cor-poration in the country. Here, too, our experts went to work and special spe-cial mandrels were designed to produce pro-duce a rod that would meet the requirements re-quirements of the experts so far as action is concerned and, after all, a fishing rod is only as good as its action no matter what it's made of. "Because we wanted to point out, to the public that all glass rods are ' not the same and that our glass rods1 have what it takes, we approached' the United States, Testing Company, the foremost testing laboratory in the country and submitted to them samples of Montague solid glass and holloglass rods. These rods were subjected to all the tests a fishing rod could ever be expected to meet under actual fishing conditions plus a lot of others. The rods were given extreme cold tests, extreme heat tests, flexing tests that would be equivalent to one hundred years of fishing use, impact tests and still they didn't break down." AAA Who Knows? We have been stumped by this question: Are glowworms, "lightning "light-ning bugs," good for fish bait? Offhand, Off-hand, we'd say "No," because if it were the bugs' luminosity that was to attract the fish, we imagine it would be non-existant under water. However, since light attracts fish, it might be effective to gather a number of these bugs, put them in a bottle and use this (tightly-corked, (tightly-corked, of course) as an underwater under-water attraction in States where such tricks are legal. AAA ' Dove Fatalities Although disease usually does not reach peak proportions until summer, sum-mer, mourning doves already are dying in considerable numbers from the effects of trichomoniasis in Alabama, the Wildlife Management Manage-ment Institute reports. Current reports being investigated investigat-ed by personnel of the Alabama co-Dperative co-Dperative wildlife research unit indicate in-dicate that this year's die-off may be even greater than that which occurred in 1950. |