As mentioned some time ago, I have been experimenting with Lô ô bamboo for making rods. Lô ô ( Bambusa procera ) is a giant bamboo from Vietnam and has many of the same characteristics that make Tonkin bamboo ( Pseudosasa amabilis ) such an excellent rod building material. In addition to that, its average diameter is significantly larger than Tonkin’s, and its internode length is such that 3 piece rods up to 8 ft in length can be made nodeless-spliceless, each section made of strips from a single internode. Its only drawback is that it has a slightly lower Modulus of Elasticity, requiring a slight change in taper dimensions to match a Lô ô rod to a Tonkin rod made from the same taper - multiplying the overall diameter of the taper by a factor of 1.035 usually does the trick. Last summer, I made two Lô ô rods based on my existing tapers, adjusted accordingly, a 3 piece 7.5 ft rod for a #4 line and a 3 piece 8 ft rod for a #5 line, and tested them extensively in Norway. The rods performe...