Many who fish with split-cane bamboo fly rods say they allow a depth of feeling when casting or reeling in a fish that just isn’t possible with today’s more common graphite rods. When Selah’s Kevin ...
While sorting tackle for an upcoming trip to fish the blue-winged olive hatch on the Frying Pan River, I briefly pondered if I should include my Hidy 8-foot, 4-weight split bamboo fly rod. I’d already ...
ESKO -- When Phil Johnson was in college, making $3 an hour working summers at the paper mill in Cloquet, he saved enough to buy himself a bamboo fly rod. "I bought an Orvis Battenkill," says Johnson, ...
For some, the announcement represents the end of an era in fly fishing. From the company's inception when Lew Stoner and Robert Winther resurrected the remnants of San Francisco's Western Fishing Rod ...
TWIN BRIDGES, Mont. - Glenn Brackett will describe the act of building split bamboo fly rods as &#8220a spiritual experience” should you happen by his workshop nestled in the heart of this tiny town ...