From references it seems likely that fishing with a fly rod the way we
know it today started between 1790 and 1845. Many bamboo and
wood species were used as a building material before and during
that period but bamboo soon became the popular and preferred
material to use. It is believed that in 1846 Samuel Phillipe, a gunsmith
from Easton, Pennsylvania made the first 6 strips designed tip from Calcutta Cane and that his son, Solon, built the first complete hexagonal rod
from Calcutta cane in 1859.[citation needed]. Although that assertion has come
under fire recently, with the publication of Split & Glued By Vincent C. Marinaro (2007).
The two authors, Bill Harms and Tom Whittle, dispute Samuel Phillipe as the first
to use six strip design to build bamboo rods. According to their research
Charles Murphy and others began building six-strip bamboo rods at least
five years earlier.
As bamboo popularity increased, the H.L. Leonard rod company[1] started
making machinery to produce cane/ bamboo fly rods. The first fly fishing
rods were made from ash and lancewood, but in 1874 H.L. Leonard started
to make bamboo rods exclusively until his death in 1907. The company
would continue to make rods for almost eight decades under various
ownership, including surviving a fire in 1964 which virtually destroyed
the shop. In 1984 it eventually went bankrupt.[1] The machinery from
the Leonard shop, including the beveler, was purchased at auction by
Marc Aroner who continues to make rods under his own name.[2] Square or Quadrate rods were the first rods Leonard made because
his belief was that these performed much better but he eventually started
making 6 strip or hexagonal rods because of commercial reasons.
At that time good quality cane was hard to find. What was available
was often full of scorch marks and insect damage. For this reason
it was easier to acquire six strips of good quality cane than 4 wider
strips for the Quadrate rod. The hexagonal version was easier to
produce and soon became the standard. Bill Edwards, Sam Carlson and Ebenezer Green produced Quadrate rods and others even made
bamboo rods which had pentagonal and octagonal cross-sections.
Bamboo soon became the preferred material for all fishing rods with Tonkin cane being prized above other species. This continued to 1950
when a trade embargo was imposed on Chinese goods. Due to the
resultant shortage of quality bamboo and the concurrent development
of synthetic fibers the fabrication of bamboo rods nearly stopped.
By the time the embargo ended in the early seventies only a handful
of craftsmen were still making bamboo rods. The main reason for
bamboo rods regaining their popularity was a result of Everett Garrison
together with Hoagy Carmichael publishing bamboo rod building ‘secrets’
in their book A Masters guide to building a bamboo fly rod.
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