Introduction Even if you can well afford to go out and buy them there is a lot to be said for making your own fishing-rods. In the first place, if you are a normal sort of a person you will get quite a lot of enjoyment out of making them, for we all have the creative instinct to some degree, and there is always a deep satisfaction in making something from nothing, so to speak. I must have made scores of rods in any time, yet I still get a lot of pleasure out of the fashioning of an elegant fishing-rod from an unpromising assortment of raw bamboo cane. Then again, when you Gaake your rods yourself you get exactly the rods you want-or, at least, it is your own fadt if you do not. You can incorporate all the features you like and eliminate all those you do nor, for unlike the manufacturer you do not have to cater for the varying tastes of the widest passible market. You have only yourself to please Perhaps most important, however, to most of us, is the fact that you can make rods far...