Rodmakers Map

Hello fellow bamboo enthusiasts!  This page, with its map and accordion list of contact info is for YOU.  All of you.  We’re very inclusive.  We want the big players.  We want the newest newbie who has merely thought of casting a bamboo rod, or making one.  If you email us your basic contact info, we’ll put you on the map.  “To what purpose?,” you may ask.  Well, if you know where you are, relative to other rodmakers and anglers, you can get in touch…to talk about bamboo, to go fishing, to make a rod, to go in together and split the dreadful expense of shipping Tonkin Bamboo.  There are so many reasons to know about other makers, restorationists, students, instructors, dealers, anglers, and the merely curious.  Yes, this may help our business, but it will help the cause even more.  The cause?  Yes.  The cause that is bamboo rodmaking, that is angling with classic tackle, that is history, understanding, appreciation, that is the very experience of slow fishing.  This doesn’t preclude fast rod actions or faster fishing action.  Slow fishing is broadly encompassing, but it starts by picking up – or making – a rod that took one or two weeks to make, appreciating the nuances of bamboo from the level of craft details to the mastery of casting rods that range from accessible to sophisticated, to the joy of catching, and of releasing.  And, rarely, the joy of eating a meal caught with honor.  There is also, with slow fishing, the comfortable knowledge that no matter what your political persuasion, you are fishing with a rod that is made sustainably, from a renewable resource.  Bamboo.  It’s the way to catch fish. 

How do you get in touch with all these other bamboo-oriented guys and gals?  Email us your basic contact info.  If you want to be on the list, we require:

• Your name
• Your address (how else can we stick a pin on the map?)
• Your email address.
• One word description of what you’re all about: Rodmaker, Educator, Author, Restorationist, Student, Angler, etc.

We know of over a dozen rodmakers in the Fort Collins, CO  area.  So far only one is on the list.  Who will join him?  In Fort Collins, and around the world, we invite you to come together.  Fish wood.  Because if they could, fish would.