Bamboo Fly Fishing
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Fishing with bamboo and hand line.?
I wanted to get this kit for my self-http://jas-townsend.com/product_info.php?cPath=52_54&products_id=943.
I also want to learn to use the tackle as well as lures and flies with this pole. I have tried to read Mr Izaak Walton online but could not understand what he had to say.
How do I chose from the first two responses?
Nice one Chadd.
I've fished the River Dove where the good Mr Walton fished and I've stayed at the Isaac Walton hotel which was very pleasant.
Scroll down to ..."Human history"....2nd and 3rd paragraphs
http://www.peakdistrictonline.co.uk/content.php?categoryId=2239 . .. .
The Compleat Angler is available as you know as an on 'line edition you can download or just read on the screen bit by bit.
It isn't just angling. It's philosophical and political comments, life in general, and the way angling contributes to the more peaceful and quieter pleasures of life.
A book of life with an angling bias, and a very nice read it is too.
That bamboo pole .....if you go to a garden store you can buy one for very little cash, or a bundle of ten of them.
Tie some line on the thin end just long enough so that when a hook is tied on the other end, then with a little bit of stretch the hook just rests in the thick end. The stretch keeps it in place and you can travel with it easily then.
That's how I used bamboo poles in the Far East, just as thousands....more like millions...of locals do it.
Buy prawns for fishing which are half the price of prawns for eating ( around S$2 a Kati) and only two inches long instead of four, and use some for bait while you eat the rest of them.
With that simple pole you can catch 100 little river catfish in an hour if you like working fast.
Lift it out, Fish off, new bait on, sling it in. Lift it out. Fish off, new bait on, sling it in.....
100 of them straight into a pot after a quick clean makes a nice fish curry for ten people.
Head and tail off, scrape the innards out, into the pot...head and tail off, scrape the innards out, into the pot...about five seconds a fish.
Production line....just like catching them.
Or you can get loads of fish from the harbour or off a boat on the beautiful blue sea on the way to the islands a couple of miles out for a picnic and a night under the stars.
Total cost in Singers and Malaysia..around 60c for a bamboo pole, plenty of line and some hooks.
Or just buy a short length of line and two hooks with the pole and spend 30c instead.....plus the prawns, which you eat most of anyway.
http://sg.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100626221150AAool6X . . .
You can try a fly line on a thin bamboo rod if you get a weight-forward line that's easy to cast but for a simple rod a length of willow is better, or put some willow into the end of a bamboo rod. It's more whippy then to send the line out.
Hazel can work OK too if you get a long straight whippy bit but with those rods you really need a reel and rod rings otherwise all the efort is on the rod tip and it won't last long.
To get a rod that's whippy enough and can handle a 3lb trout it takes a bit of wooden pole engineering.
Mr Walton and his pal Charles Cotton had some simple rods but mostly they were quite technical how the different woods were used to get a rod that's light and springy enough to cast a line and strong enough to hold a fish.
These days you can go to a fishing shop and ask for a budget price beginner's fly fishing all-in-one kit and get started as soon as you get to the river.
Have fun.
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