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- Name: Harry Boyd
- Age: 51
- Gender: Male
- Location: Winnsboro LA US
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Rods on Hand
Once in a while I manage to sneak in enough time to build a rod or two to keep on hand. If
you're so severely infected with "bamboo-itis" that you simply cannot wait, this is the place for you. I try to keep this section of the site up
to date. Any rods described below are available now.
7' 2/1 4 weight Demo rod based on a Payne taper. Very lightly flame toned, medium fast action. Clear wraps. Smallish straight cigar grip. Aluminum downslide seat over cork spacer. Step-down FE Thomas ferrules. Made for demonstration purposes in conjunction with the rod below. $1000 Pictures
7' 2/1 4 weight . Demo rod based on a Payne taper. Designed to try to make it as close in action as possible to the rod above, but with integrated bamboo ferrules. Not for sale. But I will gladly loan this rod and its corresponding rod above to anyone who would like to compare the two. Pictures
8' 6" 3/2 hollow built 5 weight I built this rod for myself so I will not be too disappointed if it stays with me. Flamed cane with opaque light brown wraps tipped primrose yellow. The grip is a modified half-wells. My custom downslide reel seat hardware over a beautiful piece of moradilla insert. New, with the plastic wrapper still on the grip. $2050 (on hold) Pictures
7' 2/1 4 weight This medium fast action rod is great for
everything from fishing pocket water on small streams to your favorite medium sized river. It casts beautifully in short, or fine-and-far-off. The rod features
a morticed swelled butt with light cane strips inlaid among the medium cane strips. Small wells grip modeled after a grip on a Per Brandin rod. Wrapped deep
red and tipped dark green. Excellent condition -- $1000 Pictures
7' 2/1 4 weight Demo rod based on a Payne taper. Very lightly flame toned, medium fast action. Clear wraps. Smallish straight cigar grip. Aluminum downslide seat over cork spacer. Step-down FE Thomas ferrules. Made for demonstration purposes in conjunction with the rod below. $1000 Pictures
7' 2/1 4 weight . Demo rod based on a Payne taper. Designed to try to make it as close in action as possible to the rod above, but with integrated bamboo ferrules. Not for sale. But I will gladly loan this rod and its corresponding rod above to anyone who would like to compare the two. Pictures
8' 6" 3/2 hollow built 5 weight I built this rod for myself so I will not be too disappointed if it stays with me. Flamed cane with opaque light brown wraps tipped primrose yellow. The grip is a modified half-wells. My custom downslide reel seat hardware over a beautiful piece of moradilla insert. New, with the plastic wrapper still on the grip. $2050 (on hold) Pictures
A little about me
Maker of Custom Bamboo Fly Rods
No one ever said it better than Norman Maclean, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and flyfishing." For me, that is certainly true. I build bamboo rods and fish with them in my free time. Handcrafting fine bamboo fly rods one at a time in my small garage workshop is more than a hobby, more than a labor of love -- it is almost a spiritual experience. John Gierach says it well in his wonderful book, Trout Bum, "...fly fishing is a sport in which fish are caught properly only in a certain way, often against all odds, and using rods made from a weird kind of grass that grows in China... it somehow seems appropriate." Please visit my website Boyd Rod Company to learn more about me and my rods.
Minister
For twenty three years I served as Pastor of three different Baptist Churches. In July of 2008 I resigned my pastorate to focus my attention on making rods, writing, and personal ministry. I still share the goodness and love of God with others from the pulpit as often as possible, but have no plans to enter full-time ministry again.
No one ever said it better than Norman Maclean, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and flyfishing." For me, that is certainly true. I build bamboo rods and fish with them in my free time. Handcrafting fine bamboo fly rods one at a time in my small garage workshop is more than a hobby, more than a labor of love -- it is almost a spiritual experience. John Gierach says it well in his wonderful book, Trout Bum, "...fly fishing is a sport in which fish are caught properly only in a certain way, often against all odds, and using rods made from a weird kind of grass that grows in China... it somehow seems appropriate." Please visit my website Boyd Rod Company to learn more about me and my rods.
Minister
For twenty three years I served as Pastor of three different Baptist Churches. In July of 2008 I resigned my pastorate to focus my attention on making rods, writing, and personal ministry. I still share the goodness and love of God with others from the pulpit as often as possible, but have no plans to enter full-time ministry again.
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