There are over 150 steps in making a bamboo fishing rod which involve nearly 60 hours of work to actually complete. That’s a lot of work. You can sneak a peak at how it gets done—the carving ...

I'm getting anxious now. Tom Smithwick, who moved to Shippensburg several years ago, builds bamboo fly rods. A couple weeks ago, he found three bamboo rod blanks and offered to ...

If there ever were any worry that the art of making split bamboo fly rods would die out, my visit to the Colorado Rodmakers Reunion at Chair Mountain Ranch recently ...