River Tails

July 18th, 2008 by fishing_expert

You know Rio or Scientific Anglers will rise to the bait, they’ve made a fly line for almost every conceivable gamefish, rod action, and water density, and this latest trend folds neatly into the light tackle phenomenon.

AFTMA will spew coffee out of it’s collective nose when manufacturers insist on either decimals or scientific notation to cover the line sizes smaller than #1, but as carbon nanotubes are mainstream science we can expect the rod companies to introduce something shortly .. after they’ve figured out that “sticky ferrule” issue.

A team at Kyoto University, Japan has designed the world’s smallest fishing reel to store, without any damage, long DNA strands that have a tendency to become tangled.

Can the 0.0002 weight be that far away – and will they be enough to subdue an enraged Goldfish? Forget “double taper” think “double helix” …

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