Dedicated to a
Time-Honored Craft.
at sweetgrass bamboo fly rods we are committed
to doing all the right things for all the right reasons.
Bamboo forest in the mist a short walk from the village of Aozi in Guangdong Province, China
We have sourced our world class Tonkin bamboo with the Cai Family in the village of Aozi for decades.
Andy Royer, the Bamboo Broker
Lao Cai, the patriarch of the family and Glenn’s close friend and business partner, casting a fly rod he built from his bamboo for the first time.
Grading and sorting hand-selected and aged bamboo
From the moment we select the pole, No detail is overlooked.
Glenn Brackett hand selecting bamboo poles
Every Sweetgrass Rod is a product of about 3000 unique processes learned from a long line of master bamboo fly rod builders.
