How to Make Bamboo Fly Rods

By George W. Barnes

Contrary to most expectations, crafting a bamboo rod is really not all that difficult. Anyone who can tie a credible Fanwing Coachman or a Muddler Minnow should have little difficulty with a bamboo... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876912374
• ISBN13: 9780876912379
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Winchester Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

WOULD I EVER HAVE BUILT A FLY ROD WITHOUT THIS BOOK? NO.

BACK IN 1977 WHEN EVEN FIBERGLASS WAS BECOMING EXPENSIVE, AND ALL ADVERTISING FOR FISHING RODS CLAIMED, "CASTS JUST LIKE BAMBOO!", A BOOK APPEARED THAT MADE MAKING YOUR OWN BAMBOO ROD POSSIBLE. GEORGE BARNES CHANGED A FEW LIVES WITH HIS BOOK.