Not everyone should own or fish a split cane bamboo fly rod. Some folks are just too addicted to high tech. After all bamboo only offers a fly rod that warms the heart, bounces the summer sun in a thousand different directions and is uniquely in tune with the rhythms of the rivers, streams and lakes it touches. Bamboo's unique characteristics made it one of the finest choices for the construction of fly rods. Its' flexibility, recoil and recovery and overall toughness were just the qualities that have traditionally been most appreciated in working fishing gear. There's just nothing quite like...

They say you are what you eat. I'm pretty sure you eat who you are, and where you came from. Who I am is a southern boy and where I used to be is Georgia. Who I then became was a (dreaded) northerner who at the tender age of seven was uprooted and moved a mysterious land north of the Mason Dixon line. In the south our culinary tradition had been the fried meal. I grew up periodically knocking the can of Crisco off the corner of the stove as I bolted out the back door on my way to a pickup game of something or other. Invariably next to the Crisco was a deep iron skillet which was really the...