Now that you’ve decided to build a fly rod you may be wondering: “Just how do I go about building this darn thing?” Good question! This article is designed to help you choose a rod.
Read More >>How to Build a Fly Fishing Rod Pt 2
Category Archives: Rod Building
How to Build a Fly Fishing Rod Pt 1
Have you ever built a fly rod? A graphite trout rod? A Spey rod? A bamboo rod? My guess is most of you have not. My hope is that you will, someday, and that this series of articles might help you.
Read More >>Building a Blue Halo Fly Rod
For the last couple of years I’ve been intrigued by Courtney Boice and his fiberglass rod company Blue Halo. Like a child, I was drawn to the colorful works of art that his company pumps out at a rather mind blowing pace these days.
Read More >>A Visit to Thomas & Thomas: The Comeback of a Trusted American Brand
How do you re-energize a trusted brand? How do you regain marketshare in a market that’s not only crowded, but also highly discerning? These are the very questions American rod manufacturer Thomas and Thomas is facing.
Read More >>Video: Hoagy Carmichael on the Garrison Carmichael Bamboo Fly Rod Shop
Before the bamboo rod shop was gone, I wanted to capture it, and its history. Over Thanksgiving, I shot a bunch of video of my dad talking about the shop, and have spent the past few months editing that video down to what you can see in this post.
Read More >>Video Preview: Hoagy Carmichael & Everett Garrison Bamboo Fly Rod Shop
Over Thanksgiving, I shot video of my dad explaining his relationship with Everett Garrison, who owned most of the workshop equipment before him, his love of working with bamboo, and the importance of it being in a museum. Check it out here.
Read More >>Pops’s Bamboo Rod Shop at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center & Museum
As I’ve written about before on this site, my dad’s bamboo rod building workshop has long been bound for the Catskill Fly Fishing Center & Museum. That day finally came, and the long room in the back of our garage is now empty.
Read More >>Eldridge Bros Winter 2015 Class Schedule
Eldridge Brothers Fly Shop in Cape Neddick, Maine, has shared their lineup of Winter 2015 classes — and they look great. Check them out, and reserve your spot soon.
Read More >>Fly Rod Building in Dad’s Workshop
A tour around the shop is a crash course in fly fishing history. Those reels there? Pieces of a Bogdan, or a Vom Hoffe. That tool there? It was originally owned by Everett Garrison, the great American rod maker with whom my dad wrote his book on bamboo fly rod making. That bamboo there? Bamboo sourced from a remote region in China. And that there? Me, trying to learn a fraction of what my dad knows.
Read More >>C.F.Burkheimer: Beautiful Rods, Craftsmanship
While neither based nor produced in New England, there’s no doubt that C.F.Burkheimer’s rods are things of beauty — and, that they can huck some serious line. This is a great video, featuring background on the construction of their rods, interviews, and the obligatory slow-mo casting shots.
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