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Angling History
A short Introduction
Angling history is a minor chapter of Historical studies. But, it's a fascinating
aspect of History. The hobby of making fishing rods is also understanding that we are continuing a craft which is rooted in a universal tradition. And that bamboo rod making belongs to our own European and American tradition.
It allows to understand the life conditions of the generations
before us, the technology available to them and the main events that affected
their lives (wars, precariousness, chances, discoveries, luck and missluck).
The story begins by saying that traditionally (and this since the very beginning (i.d. ancient history, Egyptian hieroglyphs) mankind used
natural material such as wood for making fishing rods (e.g. Hazelnut-wood, Ironwood, Greenheart, Willow, Bethabara, etc..). Then someone, somewhere, began to experiment with bamboo...