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Don andersen fly rods.
Original watercolour royal coachman courtesy of clive schaupmeyer.
But a lot of the modern day reels are very light weight and don t balance a bamboo rod very well while many of the older reels that were made years ago are heavier.
When i m out fishing i usually have an older classic reel on my rods.
Casting with a split cane and adapting to it is a subject worth more than a little study because of the range of actions we can find in the rods and the very real situation that many anglers have their own idiosyncratic style with carbon or with cane.
Casting and fishing a bamboo fly rod.
Rod is in excellent condition.
And there is just something about putting a reel with a classic look on a fine bamboo fly rod.
Evolution of a rodmaker stauffer creek story the catatonic leech order of the bighorn muir lake walk of fame indicators for all fishing conditions the cff a dry fly.
Do you have any information about fly rod milwardã â s made in england i suppose 50 60 years ago type fly craft bamboo length wise 9ã â 0ã â ft 2 74m 3 section one handed with classic cork cigar shape and with.
Tonkin bamboo is the common name for arundinaria amabilis or the lovely reed.
The raffle prize is a 7 6 3 4 weight cane continue reading.
In addition to these older rod tapers there are excellect tapers by contemporary makers such as aj thramer don anderson wayne cattanach and ray gould in the the archives of the rodmaker s listserv in books in the planing form and on web pages linked to jerry foster s rodmaker s website.
Don anderson s heat treating oven.
Don anderson maker alberta canada model 209e 7 9 2pc 2 tip 5 wt.
Fast dry fly action.
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Rod comes packed in black rod bag and stored in aluminum labeled black rod tube.
You could win a handcrafted split cane fly rod we have extended the draw date for our raffle for the bamboo rod built by don andersen until november 7 2020.
Cigar cork grip with blued nickelsilver slideband and butt cap.
Classic rod forum where bamboo rods their use value and construction are the staff of life.