Gett’n the wood out

  • mudneck_joe
    SE MN
    Posts: 409
    May 17, 2013 at 6:34 pm #1282272

    Came across a bamboo flyrod and had to try it out for the first time. It is hard to compare to a graphite rod because technology is great, but the bamboo rod worked great also!! I have seen a lot of Heddon bamboo rods but I have never seen one in this great of shape before. There is no warping and all and the pieces fit together snug and perfect. A lot of people would hang this on their wall, but Im going to put it through it’s paces in the field. The rod may be 63 years old, but it has a fighting heart.






    Chris
    Rochester, MN
    Posts: 1396
    May 17, 2013 at 7:09 pm #1171735

    Cool post and awesome looking hole!

    gary d
    cordova,il
    Posts: 1125
    May 17, 2013 at 7:11 pm #1171737

    I have two of them and can not bring myself to use them. They are so beautiful that I’m afraid that I would break them. One of them is call the Angler and has what I been told twin tips because it has 2 tips. The other one I can not read the plate on it.

    Nice look fish that you got there!!!

    mudneck_joe
    SE MN
    Posts: 409
    May 17, 2013 at 7:50 pm #1171744

    Your probably right. Maybe this one will just come out for special trips. I told myself that if I break a tip there is a back up.

    blufloyd
    Posts: 698
    May 17, 2013 at 10:43 pm #1171759

    Grass not wood is proper term. Enjoy it anyway.

    BBKK
    IA
    Posts: 4033
    May 17, 2013 at 10:50 pm #1171760

    Quote:

    Grass not wood is proper term. Enjoy it anyway.

    Yessir! I believe bamboo is the biggest species of grass on earth.

    That looked like a blast! I have an old bamboo rod in the rafters that was my fathers when he was a kid, no way I would be brave enough to take it fishing!

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