Italian Bamboo Rodmakers Association Year 3 Number 5 December ...

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Bamboo Journal
For a number of reasons, bamboo rods will always be a
niche product even in the years to come. But this also
depends from the fact that in the collective imagination,
carbon fibre has become the standard rodmaking
material. I’d like to be proven wrong but in our country
fly fishing has reached certain levels and with this there
has been a parallel reduction in the costs of equipment
and this doesn’t certain do much for our sector. Perhaps
the requests would increase if there were to be the
right kind of promotion especially among the young
people for what is the essence of fly fishing: that is not
only the learning of casting techniques but also the
capacity to incorporate the intellectual component of
what I obstinately continue calling our “Discipline”.
Instead I see the constant cultural involution of our
sector and this is blatant especially observing the behaviour
of many, too many fly fishermen who cast a
line but that have nothing to do with the world of fly
fishing.
Italian Bamboo Rodmakers Association