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Cold

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  1. I've got a few...they're...interesting. Like they had the potential to be really great, but they didn't get quite enough product development. Their clip boxes are my favorite from their lineup.
  2. That sentiment, combine with the post above it, is (imho) why a lot of things in the fly fishing world are either "hype" or "dying out". It's a small market, and R&D is expensive. So manufacturers have fewer potential buyers of their new stuff across which to divide the costs of development, meaning each individual buyer must pay for more of it. How to convince a potential buyer to pay for all of that when their current stuff already works? Market the hell out of it. This, in and of itself isn't terribly rare, and certainly not unique to fly fishing. Those who are at all involved in photography know this all too well. But what makes the fly fishing market an especially tricky one is the way that so many of the consumers, on an individual level, justify their non-purchases through disparaging innovation, essentially shaming anyone doing anything new (whether new to the market or new to the individual) either to make themselves feel better about not buying into it, or to make themselves look better to their peers...or who knows why...but it's undeniable that a disproportionate amount of fly anglers seem to take pride in a lack of advancement. To compare to photography again, granted, tech is a bit more of an objective field, but when someone is happy with their gear as-is, they *usually* don't go the extra step of including a passive-aggressive attitude toward those who avail themselves of the latest and greatest...they just keep going with their older gear. Whether this is wrong or right is really irrelevant, though, big picture. What *is* relevant is that this is just how it works in a market like this. Lots of new stuff comes along, much of it goes away or morphs into something else, and over time, a small minority of those new things gain enough traction to become a part of the status quo. At that point, it's a slow transition from the average consumer poo-poohing the new thing...to a point where anyone still critical of the thing being a small minority and generally seen as fairly curmudgeonly. Even take this fly line example. Right now, it seems ridiculous to spend $90-100 on a new, high-end, triple textured, tri-colored, compound tapered specialty fly line with all the coatings and micro bubbles, and advanced no-stretch core. Especially when your $40 Cortland Peach works just fine. But that peach line has had to earn it's place, likely being looked on unfavorably by the very guys that swear by it now, for years, because their level line worked just fine for cheaper. Translate this into the implications for the show, and even from our small sample set here, we generally have a group of guys who 1) want to see new and different things while 2) don't want to see change. Granted on an individual level, the position may not be that drastically self-contradictory, but taken as a group, it's a position that's impossible to please.
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