actually weird at first but not hard to clench one.I can imagine clenching would be tough.
One of the members here (can't recall who) recently posted a picture of his fly fishing rig and the OD that he smoked while fishing. With certainty, while fly fishing one would have to clench one's pipe. How he did it with that stem is a puzzle to me.
Same (for me) is the difficulty of smoking a clay pipe. It's even harder.





