FISHING PATAGONIA WITH SPLIT CANE RODS by Memo Stephens
Until recently, my experience with a bamboo fly rod had been limited to admiration from a distance. Usually through a glass case with padlocks and signs, warning: “Do Not touch!”.…
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MASSIMO TIROCCHI: PROFILE OF A RODMAKER. Interview by Giorgio Cavatorti
This Article has been published on H2O Magazine – Number 2 summer 2016 Introduction In Italy there are a loto f people keen on bamboo rods, but just a few…
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America “Golden” 8′ #4/5
A Brief History About this Rod I started to work on this project in the 2022 Fall and finished it in the Spring 2024. It’s been a long work that…
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CATSKILL BAMBOO RODMAKERS GATHERING
20th Catskills Bamboo Rdomakers Gathering After being trying to attend the Catskill Bamboo Rodmakers Gathering since the last past two years, finally this year i was able to do it.…
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“SILK IN OUR TIMES” by Mike Brookes
A nice article about fly lines history It is very difficult to separate talking about silk lines from tradition, but it is important to realise that the advantages of silk…
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SPLIT CANE FLY RODS BETWEEN MYTH AND SUPERSTITION
“An unformal Conversation with Hoagy Carmichael” In the last 20 years Split Cane Bamboo Fly Rods are living a kind of renaissance. In fact in the US market, despite they…
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FEW MORE WORDS ABOUT “ROD ACTIONS”
A ROD IN ACTION I don’t want treat your soul with some strange taper design concept or some other math or tech nuts..and neither I’d talk to you about the…
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WIDENED HEX BAMBOO FERRULES (WHBF)
THE WIDENED HEX FACTOR – Part.2 There are no doubts that Bamboo Ferrules are one of the most important innovation that in last 20 years has envolved the bamboo rodmaking…
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WIDENED HEX BAMBOO RODS
the widened hex factoR – Part 1 Since from my beginning i felt the need to develop bamboo rods able to join high performances but at the same time able…
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LIVING THE BAMBOO NEW AGE: THE ITALIAN JOB – PART 2
This article has been published on the Power Fibers On Line Magazine – Issue n.46 January 2012 Introduction This brief article aims to go a little more deeply into some…
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