Beyond a doubt the best fly fishing rod material is excellent bamboo effectively selected, cured, split, glued, and correctly proportioned. It possesses strength combined with lightness, resiliency, pliancy, power and balance in greater degree than either steel or solid woods.

Formerly anglers and rod makers could draw fine distinctions among male and female Calcutta and Tonkin " canes," but under present conditions excellent Calcutta is very uncommon and the word " Calcutta " is be¬coming merely a trade term. Very good bamboo of all kinds is more difficult to obtain and a good 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 least expensive split cane is known as steel vine or African cane. It is light colored and makes up into very good, affordable bamboo fly fishing rods.

Six Strip and 8 Strip Bamboo Fly Fishing Rods

We assume that you know that bamboo is split and then glued together in order to make use of the challenging outer enamel and minimize the diameter of the pieces. Some rods are created of bamboo split into six sections (hex¬agonal) and some in eight (octagonal) but the six strip construction is much more frequently employed. Some makers claim that the eight strip, getting a lot more practically a true cylinder, possesses much better action but this seems to be much more theoretical than practical, while the tiny guidelines of an eight strip rod are likely to be " soft" due to the comparative quantity of glue necessary to hold the pieces together. Eight strip rods price a lot more than the six strip and if the angler wants a round bamboo fly fishing rod they are preferable to the six strip planed down as planing undoubtedly ought to injure a rod. As a general rule a well-produced six strip rod leaves little to be desired.

Particular Function Bamboo Fly Fishing Rods

A novelty in bamboo fly fishing rod creating is what is identified as the " double built " rods which are made of two layers of split and glued bamboo, 1 inside the other. They are heavier and strong, and it is claimed, hold their shape far better, than ordinary rods and are common for sea and salmon fishing but unnecessary, I think, in single hand fly rods. An English innovation is the steel center rod which consists of a fine piece of properly-tempered steel running as a core through sections of regular split bamboo. The makers claim this construction provides a rod of superior casting power with only of an ounce added weight. Friends who possess rods of this type are enthusiastic 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 greater action. I have never tried a rod of this type so am unable to pass on its merits, but Perry Frazer, in his " Amateur Rodmaking," speaks properly of it.

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