{"id":1327,"date":"2016-08-12T17:39:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T17:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2016-08-12T17:39:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T17:39:51","slug":"a-great-young-bamboo-rod-fly-caster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/?p=1327","title":{"rendered":"A Great Young Fly Caster Discovers Bamboo!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I met a great father\/son team when I was at the IFFF Fly Fishing Fair last week in Livingston.\u00a0 Mark and Cooper were very excited to hear about bamboo fly rods so I gave Cooper the chance to cast one of my fly rods.\u00a0 He certainly had experience with graphite fly rods and had great casting skills.\u00a0 Once I got him to slow down his tempo a little, he discovered the magic of bamboo.\u00a0 His response was, “Wow, I can feel it bend all the way down into the cork grip.”\u00a0 Here are a couple of photos of him trying out my rods.<\/p>\n

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Cooper casting one of my 7′ 6″ 5 wt bamboo fly rods.<\/p><\/div>\n

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He had a great casting style.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I met a great father\/son team when I was at the IFFF Fly Fishing Fair last week in Livingston.\u00a0 Mark and Cooper were very excited to hear about bamboo fly rods so I gave Cooper the chance to cast one … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[3,46,27,4,34],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing-bamboo","category-shows","tag-bamboo-fly-rods","tag-bamboo-rods","tag-buildling-bamboo-rods","tag-dave-dozer","tag-making-bamboo-fly-rods"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1JKLr-lp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bamboopursuits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}