New in 2025
IBRA Bamboo Rodmakers Gathering, may 17.-18. 2025.
Articles
- Location of guides, that deals with the taper and the bend of the rod. By Dennis Skelmose Jensen, Denmark. October 2018.
Books:
Grau, Stefan. Ein Essay über die Geschichte des Fliegenfischens in der Schweiz vom Mittelalter bis ca. 1970. (Entwiklung der Angelgeräte & Zibehör, historische Reiseberichte aus der Schweiz). E-book, edelweiss-fishing.ch (2025).
Murray, William. Gone Fishing with cane, Self published, (2024), 466 pages – The book covers bamboo and wood fishing rods manufactured between 1850 to 1980. It lists over 250 manufacturers and give details and a valuation guide to over 5000 vintage fishing rods.
Garner, Patrick C., The Fly Rod Genius of E.W. Edwards, Aegis Press (2024), 248 pages – highlights the extraordinary fly rods of this master builder. It dispels myths and reveals a life rich in adventure. Edwards‛ unexpected discoveries created the benchmark for today’s fly rod. A complete update of the earlier volume.
- Girard, Jerry. Casting About. The Complete Castabout Columns on Fly Rods % Fly Fishing History, The Whitefish Press (2022)
Brandin, Per. A Fly Rod With a Soul. The Bamboo Fishing Rods and Life of E.C. Powell, Angler. Per Brandin (2020) –
Bando, Yuki, Mostly Bamboo – Eighteen Bamboo, Fiberglass and Graphite Fly Rodmakers In Japan, Flybito Press (2020), Edition in English, Foreword by Glenn Brackett. (Springforelle)
- Barch, R. J., Publisher, The Planing Form, 25 Year Index. 1990-2014, Issues 1-150, The Planing Form (2017) (Sam Nielson) *
Magazines:
- Bamboo Journal Issue 28, January 2025 is out now.
- NEW: Database. Database that gathers all the articles published in the Bamboo Journal. on rodmaking techniques, equipment and machinery, the history of rodmaking, profiles of rodmakers, reports on events and gatherings.
- Power Fibers Online Magazine, Vol. 65, June 2022 is out now. Current Issue.
Catalogues:
- Just uploaded excerpts from Catalogues from Allcock Laight & Westwood, Albert Smith, Alexander Martin, Noris Shakespeare, The North Star, Hardy Pall Mall Centenary 1892-1992, Young, DAM, Hørgård, Allcock, Farlow, Foster, Pezon & Michel, Milward, Orvis, Hardy, Winston, T&T, South Bend, Leonard, Sharpe and some more.