So, Orvis to drop Battenkill !

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coolhl7
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So, Orvis to drop Battenkill !

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Orvis will be outsourcing their bamboo production to south Korea...
same plant but with different tooling that Hardy and Douglas use..
all the rods will be manufactured with robotics run on solar power
and therefore be carbon neutral. the rods will be radically hollowed out and impregnated with graphene
using nano technology. The tapers will be designed by AI (artificial intelligence) using a composite of all
past bamboo and graphite tapers. The rods will be 9 foot with a proprietary boron reinforced bamboo sleeve ferrule.
they will weigh 34% less than past models and available in 4 piece travel models.
Orvis hired a marketing company that found 98% of all millennials do not know "kill" is a dutch term for stream or creek and actually
subconsciously triggers threatening connotations for them and thus the name "Battenkill" has been dropped in favor of HeliosB2Biii and will
look exactly like the older model Battenkills sans the nickel silver ferrules but will have the large white Helios label above the foregrip.

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Re: So, Orvis to drop Battenkill !

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sorry my first post had to be an April fools joke but I have been lurking here for a while.
started fly fishing the Esopus with a wonderrod in the mid to late 60's.....I drooled over the Orvis catalogs for years but could never afford
a bamboo rod. now that I can afford them I am addicted to fast graphite rods having lived on the florida coast for 30 years and fishing for tarpon, jacks, reds etc.
but I moved to Colorado and I know a bamboo rod is in my future ;)
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Re: So, Orvis to drop Battenkill !

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Welcome to the board! I love the post and just reading the subject line almost got me!

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Re: So, Orvis to drop Battenkill !

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Hat Tip!
"Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend...inside a dog, it's too dark to read!" Groucho Marx

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Re: So, Orvis to drop Battenkill !

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So trite, so self righteous.

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Much needed humor! Well crafted!

coolhl7
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jim royston wrote:So trite, so self righteous.
its really just a joke! I do not take myself so seriously....I have even been known to put a spinning reel on my fly rod and bottom bounce worms...

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Re: So, Orvis to drop Battenkill !

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Happy April!
I was onto you from the get-go. ;)

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Re: So, Orvis to drop Battenkill !

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Yow! You got me!!!

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PS - how can anyone follow this act?

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Re: So, Orvis to drop Battenkill !

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That was your first post to this forum???

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Webfly wrote:That was your first post to this forum???
yes, but I have been lurking here for a while.... as a teen in the 60's I would take the subway from the Bronx to the most expensive fly shops in Manhattan and handle all their bamboo rods as the staff would watch me like a hawk,,,and then go back home to my 8 ft wonderrod...I would hitchhike up to the Beaverkill and Esopus.....I used to look at the Orvis catalog that came out yearly and dream of owning one some day.
But then I moved to Florida and big game fish and graphite rocket launchers were the name of the game....
Now I live in Colorado and its back to my roots....




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Quite an entrance...

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Re: So, Orvis to drop Battenkill !

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yes excellent first post! I expected a April 1 post to happen, this was a good one.
Welcome on board.

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Re: So, Orvis to drop Battenkill !

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Nicely played Sir, nicely played! Welcome. Excellent entrance.
Just a guy, trying to build a tool.

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Re: So, Orvis to drop Battenkill !

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Took me hook line & sinker...

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Re: So, Orvis to drop Battenkill !

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Pretty convincing! Good one, welcome from Seattle! Where in Colorado are you?

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bugslinger wrote:Pretty convincing! Good one, welcome from Seattle! Where in Colorado are you?
Thank you! Colorado Springs, and loving it!

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Re: So, Orvis to drop Battenkill !

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Oooops! Forgot today's date. Never mind!!

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Re: So, Orvis to drop Battenkill !

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I'd say that's the best first post ever.

Welcome, there is an Orvis 99 for sale on the adds, so get on it!

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Re: So, Orvis to drop Battenkill !

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He sucked me in!!! Keep up the good work!! Grab that 99, you'll be glad you did.

Ralph

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