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This past winter we had multiple hurricaine force storms come through town. The strongest was clocked at 131mph! As we say here "If it was anywhere else they would name them!"

Anyway, just down...

An address will get you plenty enough cottonwood bark to do a handle, and it will be very dry and well-seasoned.

Oh, and I do not use any sealer on them and have fished them hard.

Jesse
I have made a ton of them from cottonwood, ponderosa pine, stacks of birch circles, and others. I would never do another birch bark as it never lays flat and is too thin to be worthwhile.
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