Hi,

As far as I can tell, there's a rodmaker here, there, or somewhere who has tried every species grown in the US, or most other places, and had a great time doing it. There's something to be said for experimentation... H. L. Leonard probably never would have found the Tonkin cane in his daughter's parasol without that drive. And a lot of them are fishable, from reports I've heard or those experiments I've cast at getherings, depending on the type of fishing (like in the Calcutta story above) or your level of satisfaction, or even your joy at using something different.

Bill Harms, extraordinary rodmaker from PA, had a neat rod made from unsplit Japanese cane that happened to grow in a usable taper.

The Argentine cane, as far as I know right now (anyone else ?) is not allowed for import as raw cane.

We even have a tiny bamboo growing here in Maine.

Kat