http://headwatersbamboo.com Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:46:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's an interesting article: The number of salmon in the Pacific Ocean is twice what it was 50 years ago. But there is a downside to this bounty, as growing numbers of hatchery-produced salmon are flooding the Pacific and making it hard for threatened wild salmon species to find enough food ... http://headwatersbamboo.com/blog/news/hatch-22-the-problem-with-the-pacific-salmon-resurgence/ "That Presidents have taken to fishing in an astonishing fashion seems to me worthy of investigation. I think I have discovered the reason: it is the silent sport. One of the few opportunities given a President for the refreshment of his soul and the clarification of his thoughts by solitude ... http://headwatersbamboo.com/blog/news/herbert-hoover-on-fishing/ Doug has just given us rights to use his excellent tutorial on casting. Over the next few months we will be working with him to develop a casting document particular to casting bamboo. If you'd like to see these documents, just send me an email to david@headwatersbamboo.com. http://headwatersbamboo.com/blog/news/doug-macnairs-cast-like-a-pro/ Paul Schullery, in an essay of Arts and Crafts in his book Royal Coachman says: "No matter how much attention and ornamentation we may lavish on it, a fly rod after all is just a stick." and "I remember the first "classic" bamboo rod I ever saw, because I've never really recovered from ... http://headwatersbamboo.com/blog/news/to-each-his-own/ A Jack Ohman cartoon in his book Fear of Fly Fishing shows a rod in a glass case with the following caption: CANE ROD. DO NOT TOUCH. EVER. His caption then says "who wants to fish with something they're afraid to touch? Fishing with a cane rod is like playing rugby in ... http://headwatersbamboo.com/blog/news/do-not-touch-ever/ "Rod makers like to point out that Tonkin bamboo does in the wild what it does in a fly rod--40 foot stalks of it bend in the strong winds and then snap back straight--and that bamboo has a higher tensile strength than steel." -John Gierach, Fishing Bamboo http://headwatersbamboo.com/blog/news/arent-they-awfully-easy-to-break/ "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/ 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 subtle finesse that will put a No. 18 dry fly on a quarter at forty feet. The rod is all right, I suppose. It's got power, but power alone won't catch trout. I'll stay with bamboo. It has grace, a soothing touch . . . The old ... http://headwatersbamboo.com/blog/news/ill-stay-with-bamboo/ ". . . Then from out of nowhere, my brother said, "Tell about the time you broke the tip on my new bamboo fly rod." -Howell Raines, Fly Fishing Through Midlife Crisis Hope his brother likes the Headwaters rod he purchased to replace the broken rod . . . http://headwatersbamboo.com/blog/news/of-brothers-and-fishing-and-bamboo/