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All Just about FishingBamboo Fly Fishing Rods
by:
John Tiger
Fishing Tips - Bamboo Fly Fishing Rods
On the far side
a doubt the better fly fishing rod material is nice bamboo properly selected, cured, split, glued, and right proportioned. It possesses strength combined with lightness, resiliency, pliancy, power and balance in greater degree than either steel or solid woods.
Once anglers and rod makers could draw fine distinctions between male and female Kolkata and Tonkin " canes," but under present conditions nice Kolkata is really rare and the word " Kolkata " is be¬coming simply a trade term. Nice bamboo of all kinds is much difficult to receive and a nice piece of Tonkin is better than an indifferent one of Calcutta. Male Calcutta, however, is supposed to be superior to either the female or Tonkin. The cheapest split cane is acknowledged as steel vascular plant or African cane. It is light colored and does up into good, cheap bamboo fly fishing rods.
Six Strip and 8 Strip Bamboo Fly Fishing Rods
We assume that you cognize that bamboo is split and then pasted together in order to utilize the hard outer enamel and reduce the diameter of the pieces. Several rods are ready-made of bamboo split into six sections (hex¬agonal) and several in eight (octagonal) but the six strip construction is much often used. Several makers claim that the eight strip, being much nearly a true cylinder, possesses better action but this seems to be much theoretical than practical, piece the bantam tips of an eight strip rod are likely to be " soft" due to the comparative figure of glue necessary to hold the pieces together. Eight strip rods cost much than the six strip and if the angler wants a round bamboo fly fishing rod they are preferred to the six strip planed down as planing surely must injure a rod. As a general rule a well-made six strip rod leaves little to be desired.
Special Feature Bamboo Fly Fishing Rods
A novelty in bamboo fly fishing rod devising is what is acknowledged as the " double built " rods which are ready-made of two layers of split and pasted bamboo, one inside
the other. They are heavier and strong, and it is claimed, hold their shape better, than ordinary rods and are popular for sea and salmon fishing but unnecessary, I believe, in single hand fly rods. An English innovation is the steel center rod which consists of a fine piece of well-tempered steel running as a core through sections of regular split bamboo. The makers claim this construction gives a rod of superior casting power with only of an ounce accessorial weight. Friends who possess rods of this kind are ardent admirers of this construction for heavy fishing.
An American maker supplies a rod of " twisted bam¬boo " which he claims equalizes the strain and pro¬duces better action. I have ne'er
tried a rod of this type so am unable to pass on its merits, but Perry Frazer, in his " Amateur Rodmaking," speaks well of it.
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Wish M has been fishing for over 10 years and picked up a lot of nice tips for catching galore types of fish
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