I saw a friend last autumn produce a 15-foot greenheart rod on Tweedside.
We prefer rods in three pieces--no hollow-butts--and made of greenheart throughout.
With the minimum of care, a greenheart never gets out of order; and a good rod of this description will be as straight at the end of a season as at the beginning.
The first cost is more than for rods whose various parts are made of different woods, but the greenheart is the cheapest rod in the end.
Greenheart wood is of a dark-green colour, sap wood and heart wood being so much alike that they can with difficulty be distinguished from each other.
The Greenheart (Nectandra rodiali) is of the laurel family and grows in South America.
They watched the big greenheart rafts floating silently downstream with their Indian crews lolling in hammocks beneath the thatched shelters on the logs.
The river is deep and it's not unusual to see several big tramps up here loading greenheart or even farther up at Akyma loading bauxite--aluminum ore, that is.
Greenheart is the wood used for gates exposed to salt water, as it resists the attack of the teredo in temperate climates.
To speak again from my own experience, I found an inexpensive light Greenheart made by Hancock, a delightful rod in every respect and with this my first ventures both with trout and coarse fish were made.
Dagame orgreenheart is used for the butt, joint, and tips, and german silver for the fittings.
The writer's own long experience says that it is not, and that a finely made solid-wood rod, of greenheart or dagame, is quite as satisfactory in the hands of the average angler as the most expensive split bamboo.
The materials required for this rod are, 1 dagame or greenheart stick, 5 ft.
The material list is as follows, the attachments being made of german silver: Dagame or greenheart butt, 5/8 in.
I used, the other day, at the International Tournament, a greenheart that I have used almost exclusively for about twelve years, and with which I have killed many hundred brace of trout.
It may be, perhaps, from having been accustomed for many years to greenheart that I do not take readily to the light, springing motion of cane.
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