Joseph (Joe) Freeman

My name is Joseph (Joe) Freeman, I restore and refurbish
old Bamboo fly rods, and I am currently working on my
Planning forms, so I can start the process on my first
Bamboo. I currently own about 5 or 6 fishable bamboos.

I recently moved from Fayetteville Arkansas to Burnett
Washington, I really miss Arkansas. I was lucky when I
started Flyfishing, I fell in with a good crowd, with
names like Frank Brown, Bill Combs, Rip Collins and Duane
and Marlene Hada, and Leo Eck. I first fell in love with
Bamboo when a shop in Little Rock, loaned me an Orvis 8'
for 5wt, for a weekend on the Little Red, I don't remember
what model it was, but needless to say I was hooked. Bill
Combs intensified that growing interest, by showing off
his closet full of storied rods, including a Thomas
& Thomas Browntone, that was the most beautiful rod I
have ever seen. I own several "plastic rods" and fish them
from time to time, But I am really looking forward to the
day when I can do a cross body roll cast with a 7ft 4 wt,
that I have made myself, to a pod of 6-8 inch mountian
Cutthoats in a little tiny stream very near my house