Make Your Own Bamboo Fly Rod

Whether you are building a traditional fly fishing rod or doing a custom rod build for spey or switch applications we carry a variety of fly fishing rod building kits from top brands including mhx temple fork st.

Make your own bamboo fly rod.

Kits for building a custom fly fishing rod. A bamboo fly rod is made of six strips of bamboo glued together to form hexagon photo below. Bamboo rod kit 7 1 2 ft 2 2 4 wt. Blank complete kit.

Not included are the standard rod components such as ferrues seat guides etc. Blank complete kit. First get a bamboo pole or a stick that is 8 to 10 feet long and 1 to 2 inches in diameter. 10 in this video i show you how to make a mini bamboo fly rod which takes under 40 minutes to make.

Making bamboo fly rods requires using cane of better than average quality and most bamboo fly rod makers use tonkin cane that is specially imported for that purpose. The short and sweet version thanks to darryl hayashida or the longer more in depth version you can click on any image to be taken to a. The informational content of this bamboo fly rod and fly fishing site is not warrantied in any way or form and any use of said content are at the reader s own risk the author shall not be held responsible in any way for any damages or injuries arising from the content of this web site. Costing me only the small fly reel 9.

Complete your very own bamboo fly rod from a raw culm to a ready to fish fly rod total class price is 2360 includes six days of instruction by bill oyster tools and components and of course your newly completed bamboo fly rod click below to reserve your spot by making a 500 deposit. Bamboo rod kit 8 ft 2 2 4 5 wt. Here is a list of the essential tools that you ll need to make your own bamboo rod. I ve been a woodworker and a fly fisherman for years so it was probably inevitable that sooner or later i would build a bamboo fly rod.

You can make a simple homemade fishing rod using either a bamboo pole or a stick. Fly boxes fly lines spey lines fly reels reel accessories vintage fly reels fly tying feathers fly tying vises tools. The protruding rings that occur on bamboo are called nodes and require quite a bit of work to flatten out before the bamboo can be used to make a fly rod this image courtesy of andy royer. Tie a piece of fishing line to the end of the fishing rod.

Use either a sharp knife or a piece of sandpaper to smooth out the bamboo pole or stick. Making your own bamboo fly fishing rod woodworker and fisherman jeff day decided to combine his two passions and create a useful and durable bamboo fly fishing rod. The strips are triangular in cross section and since the rod tapers from handle to tip the triangular strips taper too the triangle is bigger at one end of the strip than the other.