Make Your Own Bamboo Fly Rod

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.

Make your own bamboo fly rod.

Blank complete kit. Blank complete kit. Bamboo rod kit 7 1 2 ft 2 2 4 wt. Use either a sharp knife or a piece of sandpaper to smooth out the bamboo pole or stick.

Costing me only the small fly reel 9. Tie a piece of fishing line to the end of the fishing rod. First get a bamboo pole or a stick that is 8 to 10 feet long and 1 to 2 inches in diameter. 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.

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. Page 1 of 3 tools you ll need to build a bamboo rod. A bamboo fly rod is made of six strips of bamboo glued together to form hexagon photo below. Here is a list of the essential tools that you ll need to make your own bamboo rod.

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. 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. 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. 10 in this video i show you how to make a mini bamboo fly rod which takes under 40 minutes to make.

Kits for building a custom fly fishing rod. You can make a simple homemade fishing rod using either a bamboo pole or a stick. 8 ft bamboo blank and rod kit. Not included are the standard rod components such as ferrues seat guides etc.

Fly boxes fly lines spey lines fly reels reel accessories vintage fly reels fly tying feathers fly tying vises tools. 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. Posted in bamboo rods general.