Charles F. Murphy, a veteran angler and hunter in Newark, N.J., made the first perfect split bamboo fishing-rod for the trade, but to Sam Phillippi, of Easton, Penn., belongs the honor of ...

The historical marker at S. Third and Pine streets, just south of Centre Square, Easton, indicates where Samuel Phillippe invented the split-bamboo fishing rod in the United States. He made the ...

Hunters traded nets and falcons for shotguns in pursuit of game birds some 500 years ago. Wing-shooting certainly still has its nostalgic protocols, its aesthetics, even its pretensions. But when ...

Some years ago, George Black happened upon a split bamboo fly rod in an antiques mall in Stillwater, Okla. A fly fisher of but a few years, he bought it for $87.50 and thought he had something ...

That something is a bamboo fly rod. The culms are split and tapered into smaller strips, planed and glued up to a 65-thousandths-of-an-inch point, wrapped in silk, heat-treated, varnished to a ...

All students of fly fishing will agree that Tonkin bamboo was the superior material for building a classic fly rod, and most will concur that Tonkin bamboo was correctly named: Arundaria amabilis ...

Bamboo fly fishing rods made by Kevin Sugden, owner of Bighorn Bamboo Rods and Guide Service, are displayed on his shop wall Wednesday, July 21, 2021 in Selah, Wash. Evan Abell / Yakima Herald ...

Bamboo began catching on in the 18th century and ruled the sport until fiberglass rods began making noise in the 1950s. Fischbach had arranged for me to meet him and Ron Barch, a bamboo fly-rod ...