Split Cane Bamboo Fly Rod

Orvis has been building bamboo fly rods for well over a century and is responsible for some of the most important innovations in their design and construction.

Split cane bamboo fly rod.

After tom passed away i decided to order a moran 3 piece rod made by calum himself from gladstone fly rods. Oyster presentation grade hand engraved bamboo fly rods bamboo fly rod making classes hand crafted split cane trout full time maker of custom bamboo fly rods bill oyster now offers bamboo rod making classes as well as a full line of hardy fly reels hand engraved bamboo fly rods and accessories. For sale here is a recent cane rod made by ted simroe a 7 6 2. Being a moran bamboo rod owner and user of a 7 6 2 piece and having seen some of calum s work whilst working for the hardy rod company along side tom moran.

As an individual maker i can design and build each rod exactly as i feel it should be. Fosters of ashbourne pezon and michel alex walker marcus warwick jjs walker bampton playfair andersons ogden smith allcocks and many more. Split cane fly rods also known as bamboo fly rods are often viewed as beautiful keepsakes too often stored behind glass cases and admired rather than fished with. Bamboo fly rods by w s.

Hardy antique split cane fly rods from the world famous hardy s of alnwick england. Welcome to brandin split cane rods i design rods with primarily two qualities in mind smoothness and power. A bamboo fly rod or a split cane rod is a fly fishing rod that is made from bamboo the british generally use the term split cane in the u s most use the term bamboo the heyday of bamboo fly rod production and use was an approximately 75 year period from the 1870s to the 1950s when fiberglass became the predominant material for fly rods. Split cane fly fishing rods from other quality makers apart from those brands already named such as hardy and farlows.

When products from china were placed under embargo bamboo fly rods were harder to attain and their popularity with anglers was replaced by the new graphite or fiberglass rods. It s true from the 1870s to the 1950s bamboo fly rods also known as split cane rods enjoyed 75 years of top production in the united states. Products 1 25 of 317. Classic vintage split cane bamboo fly fishing rods poles for sale payne dickerson orvis gillum carpenter granger carmichael garrison aroner leonard taylor winston powell maxwell thomas young summers kushner wojnicki reams hidy bradford wagner jennings hawes murphy howells hardy.

However those that have fished with them know that this could never be farther from the truth.