Let's see, my first real bamboo fly rod was/is a St. Albans, made in England, touted by Herters as the finest in the world. Today I see it as a piece of crap but back then it was pure magic. Oh, and then my first chain saw came from them. I think that sucker weighed 75 pounds and only ran on Tuesdays. But was I ever proud of it since my brother and I got to lay aside the big two man crosscut saw we had been using to cut fence posts. I think I read almost everything for sale in the catalogs.....and believed them!

John McCain is my war hero.