{"id":60,"date":"2022-02-16T13:06:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T20:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2022-02-16T19:39:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T02:39:08","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/?page_id=60","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Updated Feb 25\/19<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"don-andersen-a-profile\">Don Andersen &#8211; A profile<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Born and raised in Alberta&#8217;s trout country 40 miles South West of Calgary<\/li><li>Lives in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta<\/li><li>Started fishing @ 10 &#8211; tying flies @ 12.<\/li><li>Made his first fiberglass flyrod @ 22<\/li><li>Made his first graphite rod @ 29<\/li><li>Instructs fly fishing\/ fly tying courses since 1971<\/li><li>Alberta Fish and Game club chair for fish @ club level, regional level and Provincial level<\/li><li>Made his&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/?page_id=62\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"62\">first cane rod @ 37<\/a><\/li><li>Founding member and director of the Central Alberta Chapter of Trout Unlimited<\/li><li>Presently Co-Habitat Chairman of Central Alberta Chapter of Trout Unlimited<\/li><li>Fishes about 100&gt;110 trips\/year<\/li><li>Founding co-chairman of the Corbett Lake Rodmakers Gathering . &nbsp;In 1988, a group of&nbsp; bamboo rod makers gathered at Merritt, BC to discuss bamboo rod building.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"his-rods-a-profile\">His rods &#8211; A Profile<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Don creates a series of trout fly rods in lengths of 6 foot carrying 2 weights to 8 foot 6 weights that are designed to handle most trout fishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each rod is made by hand-planing select culms of seasoned Tonkin cane to exacting specifications. Furnishings are at the pleasure of the purchaser.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/?page_id=17\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"17\">See details on the Rods page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The picture below is of a 14&#8242; cuthroat caught on a CFF Dry Fly using a 6&#8217;0&#8243; 2 wt. rod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Don9wa.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Don9wa.jpg 450w, http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Don9wa-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Feb 25\/19 Don Andersen &#8211; A profile Born and raised in Alberta&#8217;s trout country 40 miles South West of Calgary Lives in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta Started fishing @ 10 &#8211; tying flies @ 12. Made his first fiberglass flyrod @ 22 Made his first graphite rod @ 29 Instructs fly fishing\/ fly tying courses since 1971 Alberta Fish and Game club chair for fish @ club level, regional level and Provincial level Made his&nbsp;first cane rod @ 37 Founding member and director of the Central Alberta Chapter of Trout Unlimited Presently Co-Habitat Chairman of Central Alberta Chapter of Trout Unlimited Fishes about 100&gt;110 trips\/year Founding co-chairman of the Corbett Lake Rodmakers Gathering . &nbsp;In 1988, a group of&nbsp; bamboo rod makers gathered at Merritt, BC to discuss bamboo rod building. His rods &#8211; A Profile Don creates a series of trout fly rods in lengths of 6 foot carrying 2 weights to 8 foot 6 weights that are designed to handle most trout fishing. Each rod is made by hand-planing select culms of seasoned Tonkin cane to exacting specifications. Furnishings are at the pleasure of the purchaser.&nbsp;See details on the Rods page The picture below is of a 14&#8242; cuthroat caught on a CFF Dry Fly using a 6&#8217;0&#8243; 2 wt. rod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-60","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bamboorods.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}