"Fishing rods are just upside-down ski poles, " he reasoned.

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Your avatar has a race (human, elf, orc etc), a class (warrior, priest, wizard, etc), a more or less extensive inventory of all sorts of stuff (weapons, armor, potions, fishing rods, etc), a level and, in effect, a bank account.

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Fishing rods stand in the corner.

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Fashion is a fickle mistress and a hundred years after they were last seen at the "Chelsea" of the day, gnomes from round the country are yet again heading back to the sacred showground of all things horticultural, fishing rods, toadstools and of course, gardening spades, packed and at the ready!

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In the fly-fishing world, bamboo rods are an enduring foundation, and Morgan mastered this old art.

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During the afternoon the prince visited specialist fishing rod manufacturer Harrison Rods in Liverpool and ATG Access, a security company in Haydock.

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So he turned to K2's fishing-gear unit, which produced 8 million rods a year at its Chinese plant.

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