Bamboo Oven
I am 27 years old, from North West province South Africa, I am three years into building bamboo fly rods.
I walked into my favorite fly fishing tackle and travel store and said I wanted to build bamboo fly rods and I borrowed A Masters Guide To Building A Bamboo Fly Rod from one of South Africa’s bamboo fly rod gurus. One of the points....
Bamboo Switch Rods - What’s It All About?
I remember participating in a Spey Casting Clinic in 2005 on the Sandy River in Northwestern Oregon. George Cook, a well-known Spey Casting Instructor and the Northwest Sales Representative for Sage, was talking about a new kind of two-handed rod that Sage was releasing called a Switch Rod. The idea behind a switch rod was to make a rod available with the two-handed casting characteristics of a traditional Spey rod, yet smaller and light enough to be handled as a single-hand fly rod as well…hence the name “Switch Rod.” At the time, I didn’t pay too much attention to the idea as it sounded more like a marketing approach...
A Maple Case for Precious Rods
Northern Germany is a region where fly fishing is mainly fishing in the salt and not very many fly fishers have been in contact with split cane rods. As a first contact with bamboo, we arranged a little class on making lightweight PMQs. That exercise took place in a professional workshop for introducing young people to woodworking, and is led by Roland Hildebrand. During this course we arranged the following trade – a wooden transport...
