Wading staff

[JohnPowers]

If your like me you love to be right. So, go ahead and gloat. Two years ago I asked about staffs. Everyone told me the obvious. FOLDSTAFF. I bought a cheapo. Let me down big time at Buckingham Two weeks ago. I now own the FOLDSTAFF it’ll outlive me so my wife will post it in swap and sell someday. To be clear, I didn’t question your advice....I just ignored it.

 

[jifigz]

Maybe you're referencing something that I've never heard of, but I'm assuming that you are talking about a Folstaf wading staff. So, if you love to be right, you can start with getting the company's name right that makes it. Lol

 

[RLeep2]

I don't like to be right.

It raises the expectations and stakes too much for the next thing that comes along. I'm more comfortable in the area some folks call: "close, but not quite" or "right string, wrong yoyo".

You get most of the benefits and satisfaction of being right without all the performance anxiety...

 

[ryansheehan]

I made a mistake once. I thought I made a mistake.....I was wrong

 

[ryansheehan]

For what it's worth I couldn't stand the folstaf, jammed so bad it wouldn't close up. Took it back to bean(they couldn't close it either), got an orvis one, that was 7 years ago, never looked back. The design of the simms and orvis are far superior, they will never jam.

 

[JohnPowers]

Everybody loved the piece of junk two years ago when I asked. If it jams or is it jambs I’ll take it back. Its not rocket science.

 

[Bamboozle]

JohnPowers wrote:
If it jams or is it jambs I’ll take it back. Its not rocket science.

Folstaf recommends waxing the joints. They say so in the instructions and used to even furnish a small piece of wax with the staff. If yours jams, blame yourself if you don't wax it.

I do the waxing periodically and never had a problem that tapping it on the ground wouldn't solve and I've been a Folstaf owner since the 1980's.

 

[outsider]

My son and I use hiking staffs I bought about 8-10 years ago at K-Mart on sale for about $14. Never failed us. And they have had constant use hiking to and from streams along with stream use.

 

[gulfgreyhound]

Hiking Staffs #1. GG

 

[InCahoots]

Can’t get your Folstaff apart? Simple solution, give it a rap against your tire. Don’t miss!

 

[timmyt]

Ok so i gotta ask, what happened at buckingham two weeks ago?

 

[hunter1]

X 2 ? int:

 

[allan_s]

Nothing like a cheap collapse-able hiking staff collapsing as you start slipping and go full body weight on it in high, fast current.

 

[JohnPowers]

Buckingham, routine slip but the cheap staff was in two pieces. No biggie.

 

[timmyt]

Glad to hear it wasnt worse and you werent injured John!

 

[boychick]

I use a wading staff more and more these days. I hate the idea of paying for a stick. I've been using a stick I found on the river for a few years now, works great and the price was right.