Bamboo Fly Fishing Rods For Sale

Vintage bamboo fly rods for sale.

Bamboo fly fishing rods for sale.

Bamboo fishing rods rick s rods specializes in buying selling consigning high quality vintage and collectible bamboo fly fishing rods. To name several builders rods of interest to us are rods crafted by brandin carlson dickerson garrison gillum granger wright mcgill payne phillipson powell thomas thomas etc. The following rods and reels have been sold by us recently. Cigar cork grip with full nickel silver slideband reelseat.

View full product details. For example use a bamboo fly rod when you plan on fishing with dry flies emergers or unweighted small nymphs on small to medium sized streams and for when the trout starts to surface. Hang tag is from cook newton and smith a tackle house in boston that edwards made some rods for. Wrapped in brown threads and tipped in golden yellow.

Bamboo fly rods work like classic fly rods. Click to see what s rising at the head of the pool. Make offer vintage split bamboo fly fishing rod 8 long 3 piece 7 eyelet unknown maker beautiful montague redwing 3 pc 8 1 2 split bamboo fly rod w spare tip 379 00. Bamboo is now a commonly used material in fly rods and auctions are listing a wider variety of tension bending and strength levels to try.

Bright nickel silver rod ferrules. Just remember though if you are planning an all day fishing excursion bamboo fly rods are noticeably heavier than their modern counterparts so you might. Medium fast dry fly action. All sections are straight and one tip is down 1 2 at the ferrule end.

For sale here we have an 8 2 2 5wt bamboo rod from the bench of rob hoffhines built off of the dickerson 8013 taper. From vintage fly rods made of bamboo by leonard and thomas through the pinnacle of fiberglass and graphite to today s custom makers working with all blank materials. Rod comes packed in olive cloth rod bag and stored in aluminum rod tube. Rod is in very good fishing condition.

A selection of classic bamboo fiberglass and graphite fly rods offered for sale or trade. Dickerson 8013 8 5wt bamboo rod. This classic fishing rod from the edwards bristol era is a fine 4 wt dry fly rod. With the exception of touch feel and weight the bamboo fly rod works with all the common pieces of modern fly rods.