So your grandfather’s or father’s or uncle’s old bamboo fly rod has been passed on to you. What do you do with it? If you ask a fly fisherman what he thinks about bamboo fly rods, he is likely to ...

I'm getting anxious now. Tom Smithwick, who moved to Shippensburg several years ago, builds bamboo fly rods. A couple weeks ago, he found three bamboo rod blanks and offered to help me build out a fly ...

A finely detailed brown trout seen on the cover of Jerry Kustich's new book "Bamboo Days" echoes a life spent close to rivers, flies and the art of bamboo rod making. Credit: Courtesy of Bob Romano ...