Rod Building Guide: Fly, Spinning, Casting, Trolling Paperback – February 1, 2001

If you read and follow this book, you can build any fishing rod you want. That simple.

I've lived in Alaska since I was a year old (27 years) and I've been fishing my entire life. This book has kindled a fire in me that makes me want to start building my own rods and has definitely given me more than enough resources to do so. The instructions are clear and concise with pictures to help the reader along. Everything is covered, from selecting a blank, to modulus, to selecting guides and even to decorative thread wrapping to beautify your creation. This book gives more than enough information for the newbie rod builder and appears to have enough advice to help someone that has attempted a few rods of their own. Growing up in Alaska, I've fished spinning rods, bait casting rods, fly rods and deep sea rods but this book covers them all! The most intriguing part to me was the spiral guides technique for locating the guides for a trolling rod...I'm definitely interested in this because I've broken a few very nice/expensive rods fighting fish and I think that this technique may at least give my rods a "fighting" chance. (sorry, had to get a pun in there somewhere). I enthusiastically look forward to putting this new information into practice.

After reading the reviews and buying this book I was not impressed. I am a begining builder and some of the info is very very vague, esp on the spine of the rod, most other info I have read on the subject gets right to the point and lets you know where to install the guides, this book is not written for the begginer it is written for the experienced builder, it would have been a great book if I had have built a few rods, I don't even like the guys writing style he is irritating. not a pleasant read, also I am building a rod that I want to look and work for me not for the guy writting this book, if I had looked at this book before I purchased it I would not have bought this book a waste of time and not alot of money!! A must miss, and legend that will last a lunch time.

I used this guide as an introduction to building rods a couple years ago.I found it to be well out together and helpful tips that to this day can still be applied to rod building in an ever changing world.

This book goes into great detail about rod building and includes step by step pictures. I am a novice on this hobby and I can say the only thing that could be better is a little simpler steps and explained definitions for people who have limited, to no knowledge on the topic.

As a beginning rod builder I found a lot of useful information in this book. Some information had been covered in a rod building class I took. But having it as a ready reference is good. Trying to cover the 4 different types of rods did come up short in some areas though. I would have liked to see some specific set ups for the different types in terms of grips, handles and guides. I would recommend this book though to others also starting out

Not everything you need to know, but a nice starter guide, and a nice reference book to have around. Definitely helpful. I used to build rods, but had not done so in about 30 years, so was essentially a beginner again, and this book helped me get back into the swing of it.

This book is great if you want to build a fishing rod from a kit or blank. Like my title says, I hope the author writes something similar for just fly rods, and with more detail on the decorative touches you can add.Even without those, it's a great book.

Lots of great information for the beginner rod builder. Easy to follow guidelines andtips for each step of completing a rod.

Simple and accessible to all, is a book that introduces the rod-building with all the necessary information. the reading is fluent and English is simple. really good as the first book.

I have built several fly and spinning rods using this guide

Shipment prompt. Lots of useful information in the book.

higly recommande this book. a lot of pictures, easy to read. just miss a little bit information about new material but it awsome