| Fishing Tips - Bamboo Fly Fishing Rods | | | | strip, being more nearly a true cylinder, possesses |
| Beyond a doubt the best fly fishing rod material is | | | | better action but this seems to be more |
| good bamboo properly selected, cured, split, glued, | | | | theoretical than practical, while the tiny tips of an |
| and correctly proportioned. It possesses strength | | | | eight strip rod are likely to be " soft" due to the |
| combined with lightness, resiliency, pliancy, power | | | | comparative amount of glue necessary to hold |
| and balance in greater degree than either steel or | | | | the pieces together. Eight strip rods cost more |
| solid woods. | | | | than the six strip and if the angler wants a round |
| Formerly anglers and rod makers could draw fine | | | | bamboo fly fishing rod they are preferable to the |
| distinctions between male and female Calcutta and | | | | six strip planed down as planing certainly must |
| Tonkin " canes," but under present conditions | | | | injure a rod. As a general rule a well-made six |
| good Calcutta is very rare and the word " | | | | strip rod leaves little to be desired. |
| Calcutta " is be¬coming merely a trade term. | | | | Special Feature Bamboo Fly Fishing Rods |
| Good bamboo of all kinds is more difficult to | | | | A novelty in bamboo fly fishing rod making is |
| obtain and a good piece of Tonkin is better than | | | | what is known as the " double built " rods which |
| an indifferent one of Calcutta. Male Calcutta, | | | | are made of two layers of split and glued |
| however, is supposed to be superior to either the | | | | bamboo, one within the other. They are heavier |
| female or Tonkin. The cheapest split cane is | | | | and strong, and it is claimed, hold their shape |
| known as steel vine or African cane. It is light | | | | better, than ordinary rods and are popular for sea |
| colored and makes up into good, inexpensive | | | | and salmon fishing but unnecessary, I believe, in |
| bamboo fly fishing rods. | | | | single hand fly rods. An English innovation is the |
| Six Strip and 8 Strip Bamboo Fly Fishing Rods | | | | steel center rod which consists of a fine piece of |
| We assume that you know that bamboo is split | | | | well-tempered steel running as a core through |
| and then glued together in order to utilize the hard | | | | sections of regular split bamboo. The makers |
| outer enamel and reduce the diameter of the | | | | claim this construction gives a rod of superior |
| pieces. Some rods are made of bamboo split into | | | | casting power with only of an ounce added |
| six sections (hex¬agonal) and some in eight | | | | weight. Friends who possess rods of this kind are |
| (octagonal) but the six strip construction is more | | | | enthusiastic admirers of this construction for |
| often used. Some makers claim that the eight | | | | heavy fishing. |