A few years ago, a friend mentioned that he had been given a nice bamboo fly rod. It had been sitting in someone’s house for many years, and then in the trunk of a car for half a dozen more. It ...
FLUSHING – It wasn’t so much about what we were going to catch as how we were going to catch them, said Dirk Fischbach, one of the more dedicated fly fishermen I know. That we were going to fish with ...
Bamboo isn’t new to the fly fishing world. If your grandfather had a high-end fly rod in the 1950s, you can bet it was made with split-cane bamboo. That time has come and gone, and those rods are ...
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The best float fishing rods

Commercial fisheries have surged in popularity over time, sparking a trend in fishing rods. Nowadays, some of the best float ...
ESKO, Minn.—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 ...
Alan Kube stops short of calling it a religious experience. But in a heartbeat, by the waters of the South Platte River near Deckers, his life was forever changed. “I could feel what the rod was doing ...
PJ’s Fine Bamboo Rods will open its first brick-and-mortar store in Pagosa Springs on Oct. 8. The custom fly rod maker has been servicing Southwest Colorado with its e-commerce business since 2019, ...
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, ...
“So I got that bamboo rod and I turned into a bamboo fishing snob at age 17, where I basically wouldn’t fish anything but bamboo,” he said. His passion eventually turned from just fishing with bamboo ...
There has never been a better time to go and wet a line by float fishing for silvers. Silverfish can provide awesome sport on a float rod, with both commercials and rivers being plentiful with roach, ...
The historical marker at S. Third and Pine streets, just south of Centre Square, Easton, indicates where Samuel Phillippe invented the split-bamboo fishing rod in the United States. He made the first ...
ROSWELL, Ga. - Dr. Eugenie Clark once said, "Sharing the fun of fishing turns strangers into friends in a few hours," and according to the owners of a unique new shop in metro Atlanta, the scientist ...