A bamboo fly rod or a split cane rod is a fly fishing rod that is made from bamboo, also referred to as cane. With more than 1,000 different bamboo species and nearly a hundred different kinds, Tonkin Cane (Arundinaria amabilis or Pseudosasa amabilis) is most often used for fishing rods; Calcutta cane has also been used extensively.
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Famous quotes containing the words bamboo, fly and/or rod:
“A bamboo stick makes a good child.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 29:15.