"What size bamboo Rod should I get?" That's a good question because we see this a lot with our students coming in, or customers and they are used to fishing graphite rods. They'll walk in the class and they'll say I'm gonna make a 9 foot five weight and I always tell them, just hold off, there's some changes in moving between graphite and bamboo. Two of those things are the length and the line weight that you're going to need to adjust. So first off, your typical length in a graphite Rod is 9 ft, in bamboo, a solid built bamboo Rod, which is mostly what we're building, the weight of a 9 foot rod is going to be such that most people wouldn't enjoy using that rod all day. So, 8 feet is the typical upper limit these days in solid built bamboo rods. It's not that you can't go longer but anytime we go longer we're typically hollow building and doing some things like that to reduce that weight. Secondly, line weight you tend to go up a little bit because it is not producing the same kind of line speed that you're getting from a graphite rod. Anytime you're losing speed and you want to maintain energy, we're going to have to increase the mass. So, if your favorite graphite rod is a five weight, does everything you love to do well, then you're going to want to build a six weight bamboo rod or purchase a six weight bamboo rod. Even though that line is moving a little slower through the air maybe, then you're able to do with your graphite rod because it's carrying more mass, you're still able to do everything you're used to to doing with your graphite rod. So we tend to go up a little bit. A lot of people they're nervous about that and they're like well our fish aren't that big, I'm typically catching foot long trout, I don't really want to build a six weight, I like my graphite five. The six weight bamboo, because by design is going to be more supple and softer in action, it's going to be at least as much fun and as good at protecting tippets as that lighter graphite rod would be. So, you tend to drop down in length and go up in line weight when you're moving between graphite and bamboo."