Why Fish Bamboo?
Probably the one of the best questions you could ask!

Fishing bamboo for me was somewhat of an evolution. I first started fly fishing when composite rods began to make an appearance on the scene. I was told that in order to learn to cast well, I HAD to have a 7 weight, nine foot Boron rod. I bought that rod and tried to learn to cast. What a joke! ( Er ... I still have that rod! ) That rod wouldn't load a 7 wieght line until you had at least 50 feet of line out the tip! Stiff wasn't the word for that rod. Next I bought a famous makers GRAPHITE rod. It was better, but the rod was hard to cast to fish that were close in. Like say 30 feet away! You needed 40 feet of line to load that rod, not to mention the 12 feet of leader and tippet! That makes it pretty hard to cast to a fish 20 feet away! So, I bought another rod by a different maker. This rod was slower and softer and suddenly I was able to control a cast about 25 feet away and more fish started coming to the net.