Many who fish with split-cane bamboo fly rods say they allow a depth of feeling when casting or reeling in a fish that just isn’t possible with today’s more common graphite rods. When Selah ...

Bamboo canes are harvested each year and by the next year sufficient regrowth is produced for another cane to be harvested. The length of canes to be used for the bridge is important, as this is ...

To the amusement of our protagonists, the cinematographer, Lutz, tried to build a little camera tower from bamboo canes – to no avail.

Some 200 bamboo canes were used in the build, and Penda added buckets of seeds that will eventually grow to cover the pavilion with greenery.

Per Brandin, one of the nation's foremost builders of fine bamboo fishing rods, still recalls the day cane stirred his soul.