http://headwatersbamboo.com Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:36:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Now I knew. I knew "production rod" was a mild insult in the world of bamboo rods. It was like owning a Ford or Chevrolet in the company of people who drove Jaguars." -Frank Soos, Bamboo Fly Rod Suite Ford or Chevrolet don't mean very ... http://headwatersbamboo.com/blog/news/from-the-suite/ In the mid-1950s, the Heddon Model 1000 was a gem of a production rod. With gold plated guides and beautiful walnut reelseat spacer, the 1000 could be had for $100. According to John Gierach, about a month's pay for the average fly fisherman of the day. http://headwatersbamboo.com/blog/news/the-1950s-heddon-model-1000/ Might sound Greek to most of us, but you'd have to be either an expert in early 20th century Cantonese or a bamboo fly rod nut to know that this is Cantonese for "for wood, Waisap, for bamboo, Kwongning." This little jingle lead a young botanist from the US Department ... http://headwatersbamboo.com/blog/news/waitsap-muk-kwongning-chuk/ As a boy, "Bert", as Hoover was called, was fishing the Santiam near Salem, Oregon with worms, when an older fisherman gave the boy three artificial wet flies--a coachman, a grey hackle, and a professor--and encouraged the boy to abandon bait fishing. The worm, the butcher-string line, and the willow-stick pole ... http://headwatersbamboo.com/blog/news/hoover-the-fishing-president/         The golden age of twentieth-century bamboo rod making included a sweet spot of good quality manufactured rods by companies such as the Goodwin Granger Co. or James Heddon and Sons that applied mass-production techniques to yield literally hundreds of thousands of bamboo rods for fly anglers of average ... http://headwatersbamboo.com/blog/news/everymans-bamboo-rod-a-thing-of-the-past-or-the-present/ "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."  ~by Henry David Thoreau~   http://headwatersbamboo.com/blog/news/not-knowing/ "In my family, there was no clear division between religion and fly fishing." ~by Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It, 1976~   http://headwatersbamboo.com/blog/news/religion/ "If fishing is interfering with your business, give up your business." ~by Alfred W. Miller~   http://headwatersbamboo.com/blog/news/business/ "O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?" ~by Isaak Walton~   http://headwatersbamboo.com/blog/news/art/ "If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." ~by Doug Larsen~   http://headwatersbamboo.com/blog/news/fishing-poles/