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Bamboo
About building, maintaining and fishing bamboo rods

Networking

Listen up: A podcast about helping foreign friends and visitors to get a better experience and helping yourself to better trips abroad by networking. And a podcast about fishing a small stream with a cane rod. Spoken by Martin Joergensen by the stream.
All in the same soundtrack here

Four stream rods

Fooling around: This is not a review as such, but then again. GFF partner Martin Joergensen got the chance to play with four great and very different rods from ECHO, Harvest, Partridge and Scierra. All are light stream rods, but they still display large differences when fished side by side.
Read about it here

Read more on "Trout Grass, a documentary on bamboo"

Trout Grass

Perennial: Trout grass is a nickname for bamboo and the title of this DVD, which takes you on a fascinating journey from east to west, from bamboo harvest to the building of a cane rod. Beautifully filmed, well narrated and perfectly edited, it earns a rare Global Class rating.
Read the full review by Martin Joergensen here

See "Bamboo rod building, part 7" by clicking here

Bamboo part 7

The last installment: Follow along as Harry Boyd takes us through the process of trimming the bamboo blank to the proper length, preparing and mounting your ferrules, and adjusting the fit of the ferrules. Many thanks to Harry for this well received series of articles.
Click here to read the last chapter.

"Bamboo rod building, part 6" is found here

Bamboo part 6

Split cane: Now that we have our strips of bamboo tapered into sections for our fly rod, the next step is to glue these strips together into whole rod sections.
Read Part 6 of Harry Boyd's continuing series - Gluing Strips into a Blank.

Find "Bamboo rod building, part 5" here

Bamboo part 5

Split Cane: Harry Boyd teaches us the tools and techniques required to turn strips of bamboo into tapered sections of a fly rod in Part 5 of his continuing series - Planing to Taper.

Directly to "Bamboo rod building, part 4"

Bamboo part 4

Split Cane: Split cane: In the fourth installment of Harry Boyd's series on bulding bamboo fly rods, he describes the tools and processes of binding strips together and then heat-treating them in some sort of oven. Read more in Part 4 - Binding and Heat Treating

Jump to "Bamboo rod building, part 3"

Bamboo part 3

Split cane: This is the third section of Harry Boyd's continuing bamboo rod course. Here we begin to mold the raw bamboo into something that approaches the shape and form of a fly rod, and the real fun begins. Read more in Part 3 - Staggering Nodes and Rough Planing.

See "Bamboo rod building, part 2" by clicking here

Bamboo part 2

Split Cane: Part II - Select, Prep, and Split Bamboo: Harry Boyd continues his series on the construction of bamboo fly rods with a look at selecting, preparing, and splitting your culms of tonkin bamboo. See the article here.

Jump to "Bamboo rod building, part 1"

Bamboo part 1

Split Cane: Harry Boyd tells us "Since Hiram Leonard and the earliest days of fly fishing in our country, the allure of fine spilt bamboo rods has been part of the magic of our sport." Read Harry's introduction to his series of articles on building bamboo fly rods.

Videos with "Bamboo - About building, maintaining and fishing bamboo rods" - More videos

Christening a cane rod

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One of the great things about making cane rods is getting to fish with the rods new owner.
When the new owner is a friend and a very good fisherman so much the better.

Upland Waters

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A few days fly fishing on some remote small streams in Mid Wales. The weather slowly improved as did the fishing. For more information on fishing in mid Wales visit http://wyeuskfoundation.org/ For information on hand planed hollow built split cane fishing rods please take a look at
http://splitcane.co.uk/

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Fly fishing for wild brown Trout on an English Stream. The story of an evening well spent on my favourite overgrown little stream. Armed with a 4' 8" split cane rod and a few mayfly patterns. The sun made filming some shots hard on my own and forgot to lock the exposure a couple of times.

Into Autumn

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An early autumn fly-fishing trip to a local river.

A Moorland Stream

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A Bright and very breezy days fishing on a small moorland stream. Fishing various dry fly patterns we caught small wild brown trout as we worked our way up stream. The most effective patterns were cdc & elk and a small black foam beetle which was probably the most effective of the flies we fished.

Split cane day

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Fly fishing with friends, and some unexpected company.

Schliske Bamboo

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Matt Schliske makes fine bamboo fly rods and short films with his Colorado based crew.

Bamboo Fly Rods Trailer

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A very promising trailer for a bamboo rod making video. And there's even promise of a follow up fishing video!

Living the Dream

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Samuel Ebersole's entry for the Oregon Fly Fishing Film Festival, 2010. Beautiful and thoughtful - bamboo rodmaking and lots of fishing.

Go to Harry Boyd

Harry Boyd
GFF's own bamboo rod expert and maker of these beautiful rods. Best known for his extremely popular series on making your own bamboo rods.

Go to Building a Bamboo Fly-Rod

Building a Bamboo Fly-Rod
With the publication of the authors' book a new star has risen in the craft of fly-rod building. The book is clearly written with excellent editing and superb layout and design.

Go to Ib Olsen's cane rods

Ib Olsen's cane rods
How Ib Olsen builds his beautiful rods ...and some elementary notes. Article and drawings by Preben Torp Jacobsen

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