Better Bamboo

From “Can-the-rod-save-the-day” by the bamboo rod guru himself, John Gierach in https://bigskyjournal.com.

this new durable hybrid bamboo/woven glass fiber/polypropylene composite, treated with the plastination technique has a promising future.

Better Bamboo

Will this lead to better fly rods?

Maybe, if the purists can hold down their gorge over the plastination reference.  A lot of them are already ‘impregnated‘. If they can use that term anything is possible.

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