Jun 27 2007
Bamboo Fly Rods
After a bit of a lay off, I have added a new section here. There are numerous fly fishermen around Australia who are increasingly interested in taking the plunge and building their own bamboo fly rods.
In response we have set up a Bamboo Rod Builders chat session which will commence at around 7:30pm AEST every Wednesday evening. To join the chat, look for the "live chat" login at the top right of this page.
Most of the discussion so far has been about suppliers and tools. In an attempt to make this a little easier, we have started a new bamboo rod building page where we hope to gather some information that local rod builders might be interested in. The page can be found in the pages section to the right.
The rod pictured is a new rod by local bamboo rod maker Nick Taransky, dubbed the "Tea Stick". Also, if you every wondered what the rod is in the top banner on this page, well … it is 6' #2/3 also built by Nick. It was purchased as a blank and finished off by Fatso and is a damn fine little twig to fish those mountain streams with.