Fly Fishing with my 2nd bamboo rod

After completed my 2nd bamboo, I can't wait to go down to the water to test it. Last week, a few fly buddies and I went to a stream in Tanjung Malim for fly fishing. Normal the species of fish available in the stream are Tengas and Kelah.

Our journey starts before the sunrise and by 6.30am, we have reached the last stopping point at the toll.


We stopped by for breakfast and by 7.30, we were already at the destination and set up our tackles.


And off we go. We track about 20 minutes before reaching the spot.

The water was calm at this part of the creek. The catch was not good perhaps it was due the heavy down pour a couple days ago. It might have washed away the fish from the pool.

We started to venture down stream and we found a lot of rapids along this stream. The current was too strong to sink our nymphs, even our weighted nymphs. We had a hard time wading the stream too.

We cast our flies to the stream side where the water are slower and the chances of hooking up one may be higher.


Yes indeed, most of the catch that day was hooked up at stream side. Finally, I managed to get a hook up on my new bamboo rod. The action of this rod is slightly stiffer than the 1st one I built due to the swell part for the bamboo ferrules.




It was a slow day. The fish was not frenzy, just some nibbling from some small ones.
But I found out that there was a lot of bamboo trees in the area. Great!! Another place to harvest some bamboos for my bamboo rods.


More photos of my bamboo rod.