PJ’s Fine Bamboo Rods will open its first brick-and-mortar store in Pagosa Springs on Oct. 8. The custom fly rod maker has been servicing Southwest Colorado with its e-commerce business since ...

Making a bamboo drift boat is just like making a bamboo fly rod – times 10. “Instead of 700 hours, this is about 70 hours,” Ron Knowles said of the handmade fishing gear he makes at his home ...

And there’s also no better fish than the one you catch yourself—especially if you’re using a bamboo rod. “There’s nothing practical about fly-fishing with bamboo,” Oyster says.

A few years ago, a friend mentioned that he had been given a nice bamboo fly rod. It had been sitting in someone’s house for many years, and then in the trunk of a car for half a dozen more.

He studied the craftsmen that popularized bamboo rods in the 19th and 20th centuries. He was taken in by the intricacy and care required to make six-sided fly rods from precision-milled bamboo strips.

Now, with ARC Fly Rods, the business owners say their plan is to not only sell high-quality bamboo product, but also host workshops in which customers can create their own.