THE HIDY ROD COMPANY

Split Bamboo Rods by Jim Hidy



Exquisite Tools & Precise Manipulation


"Fly fishing calls for the most precise and fastidious manipulation of exquisitely fashioned tools. A three or four ounce split bamboo rod, with a well balanced reel, a tapered casting line, a leader of the proper fineness, and a well tied fly, or flies, is one of the most perfectly designed and executed triumphs of human artisanship. A violin is but little better …



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"…It delights both the eye and the tactile sense, for not every rod which is beautifully made has the crowning virtue of the right feel .

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"For you, with your quite individual bodily and mental habits, your slowly acquired art as a fisherman, must now use this fragile combination of wood and steel and silk and gut and feathers under the most subtly variable conditions of light, wind and water."

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Bliss Perry

 

 

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