If you always wanted to get into bamboo but hesitated at the cost, I am offering a selection of four and five-weight rods for $500. These rods have no shortcomings in material selection or construction technique. I fish the four and five-weight rods every day and can guarantee their reliability. And they catch fish, lots of fish. 

• Each rod is made from bamboo from the Tonkin province of China

• All are eight-foot, two-piece rods

• Snake guides, stripping guide, tip-top guide, and ferrules are tied with silk thread. 

• Rod blanks are coated with two coats of petroleum-based spar varnish and then sanded with 2000-grit paper. Rods get one last dip of varnish over all the wrapped guides and ferrules.

• Reel seats are hand-turned from various exotic woods: Buckey Burl, Cocobolo, Bocote, Bubinga, Padauk, Madrone Burl, Afzelia Burl, Spalted Tamarind, etc.    

• Reel seat butts and slide bands are enameled with fused powdered glass. Each reel seat butt and slide band is a unique interpretation of a fishy pattern; no two are alike.

• Rod grips are turned from stacked cork rings and can be finished with rattan wraps.

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When you are ready to up your trout fishing game, I suggest we do a meet and greet so I can coach you on the nuances of casting bamboo. That way, you can try a rod to see if you like bamboo and want to proceed. I will provide a reel with line for testing. Not included in the purchase price are reel and line, rod tube, rod sock, leader, tippet, flies. 

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"The charm of fishing is that it is  the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope."  
John Buchan