Rough Planing

There are hundreds of steps in building a bamboo rod. After splitting the cane into pieces and straightening the strips over heat to take out the bends you need to plane each strip into a small triangle in order to proceed to the next step. Rough planing is a very important step to do carefully so that the rest of the planing process goes smoothly. If you do a poor job here you may have to start the whole process again later on down the road because you will not have a perfect equilateral triangle.This video shows the rough planing of one strip in time lapse. In a normal 2 piece rod with 2 tips you would have to repeat what you see here 18 times. Now you can see why the rod building process is a 40-60 hour job.

Landscapes on Mountain Dew

I hope this inspires you to appreciate Gods creations and spend more time outside really getting to know the blessings of the earth.

Some people are lucky to be alive

This is proof that Darwin was right!

Latest Trip

Over the last few weeks it has been difficult to get out fishing but last Friday it happened. Thank you to Kris for letting me go! I met up with my Uncle Jim and we headed down to a place not to far from home that normally holds 8-11 inch trout. This was not the case for Friday. We got to the stream, rigged up and started down to the water. In the first hole I hooked and landed a 16" Bow and Jim landed another right after me. The next hour was a similar frenzy landing 14-18 inch Bows and Browns. It was nice to spend some time with Jim and it will not be the last time I fish this area this year!