We love Luke Bannister, we have the feeling he's one of our relatives, although all we know about him is an interview, we do'nt actually know him but we are alw...
The warmth of summer days, when the gentle rain falls, almost warm, when we tell ourselves that it's the perfect time to go fishing. We should never forget that...
Building bamboo rods is not like building any rod, it's a religion, something you dedicated your life to, it's a monk's job. The job of a lifetime. Chasing the ...
The gentleness of a fiberglass rod, fish feeding, the joy to find Luke Bannister again!
Saxnas, Sweden, end of Spring, when the snow has not melted yet and the...
Splitcane Umeå: two handed splitcane builder, fly fishing guide, rastafari and trumpet player!
Here are two films on Guhuru Milita aka Splitcane Umeå, since he...
Fly Fishing new waters
You all know Luke Bannister since we've been posting his timelss films, where bambou rod in hand, wearing a canvas jacket and white hat,...
Grayling Paradise
Old school, that's how you want to look when you are fly fishing, old school, even if you spent your teenage days trying to break free from y...
- Model Mirage 6'6' for a 4/5-weight line
As it so happens, I have become the proud owner of yet another fly rod, but this time it is not one of your “averag...
Luke Bannister goes to Sweden for his holidays, he's bringing along his splicanes and his poetry. Because Luke's films are real poems, almost like Haïkus where...
End-of-the-year celebrations are coming fast, together with their mandatory mass-consumption hysteria. For us fly fishermen, who are balls deep into rod / reels...
Our friends Pierre and Nicolas from 9p#5 have shot one of their best film ever: Handmade with woods. Zarn, french bamboo rodbuilder, probably one the of the mos...
Miles away from what fly fishing is today, Ralph moon who was not only a keen fly fisherman, great fly tyer but a fantastic rod builder. But after all, is nowad...
Luke Bannister's films are like 19th centhury paintings to me, they evoque something romantic, beautifullly strong, and yet so fragile. I love his films, I hope...
What brings more calm and serenity than Luke Bannister's films? Honestly, I don't know, but what I do know ids that every time I watch them I feel better, more ...
Every time I watch one of Luke Bannister's films, the same thing happens, I am calm, serene, relaxed, and in total communion with what I am watching on the scre...
Building bamboo rods from A to Z with passion, rods so beautiful you want to take them in your hand and use them to feel the living wood between your fingers. T...
Here's the king of bamboo rods, Luke Bannister, arriving on a remote lake after a two hours walk. Reward lays under the water, exposed to the winds in a beautif...
Luke Bannister makes films of an amazing poetry, beautiful as paitings, without camera moves, the quintescence of fly fishing films, a total austerity but yet f...
Sometimes on the Aubrac, my nearby mountains, I take a splitcane to go fishing those small black trouts in rivers black as tea. I like the pace that bamboo forc...
Christening or loosing its virginity? You choose. But as always Luke Bannister is making die of envy! We want to be there, in the english countryside, with this...
Quiet and peace. As usual Luke Bannister is giving us both of them. As usual we instantly are transported along those welch little rivers, gin clear waters and ...
The 5th European Bamboo Rodmaker Gathering will be held in Carcassonne (beautiful medieval town SouthernFrance) on November 10 and 11, 2012. If you are mad o...
I hope, that like me, you'll like this film. At last a film with direct sound! We are a bit fed up with all the music videos with fishing images in them.... I ...
After being soaked down during three weeks in the tropics, this is exactly what I needed ! A little stream, playfull trouts, smoothness of a bambou rod...the ...
Luke Bannister strikes again with the tenderness we have come to know him for. Here no there's no boring music, just real life. It feels so good to just hear th...
325 Pages of bliss ! 325 Pages of happiness ! 325 pages of obsession ! 325 of addiction ! 325 pages of fly fishing ! 325 pages of madness ! It was worth waiting...
Nice views waiting for the evening rise... Brings back memories of summer evenings. Splitcane De beaux paysages en attendant le coup du soir. Bons ssounenirs de...
A wee sea trout in a lovely environment, first autumn leaves...By Jove, this is delightful ! It is a very exquisit river indeed, really neat...Splitcane, you'll...
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