I hope I don't open up a can of worms but here it goes. I was at a fly fishing show a couple of weeks ago. While at the show I was snooping around the bamboo rod builders just trying to learn a little more about bamboo fly rods. To make a long story short I noticed at two seperate dealers that pepole were looking for faster bamboo rods. One guy picked up a rod that was worth 1200 bucks and said " buggy whip, I don't like it!" When he left a picked up the rod and felt the action for myself and did not find the rod to be slow at all for being made of bamboo. I could be wrong but I thought that was what bamboo is all about slowing thing down a bit and relaxing while fishing. I bought an older South bend bamboo rod a few month ago and love the slower action of these bamboo rods.
Now my question is are pepole looking for bamboo fly rods that cast like graphite?