About Ron Grantham
My home is in Port Moody, British Columbia, about 30 minutes northeast of downtown Vancouver, on Canada's west coast.
In 1998, my good friend John Bokstrom, who had been building cane rods for over 20 years, decided to give up rodmaking due to health reasons. With early retirement a possibility, the idea of building my own cane rods was appealing. A purchase price was negotiated with John and I had a new hobby.
I was no stranger to woodworking tools and immediately fell in love with rod making. Long days and weeks were spent familiarizing myself with the new tools. The first rod took many months, the next one a bit less. Since then, I have averaged five or six rods each year, and have built the usual array of single-handed rods from 7 to 9 feet in length, plus a number of two-handed rods.
Split cane rodmaking is, for me, a serious hobby. I spend as much time as necessary to finish each rod to my standards without commercial pressure. Each single-handed rod takes about 60 hours of diligent care, effort and precise attention to detail; two-handed rods take longer. The bamboo strips for my rods are split, straightened and planed, all by hand, then carefully heat-treated to give the finished rods the right balance of power, action and colour. My tapers are my own and are created using computer techniques.
Split cane fly rods have been a part of my life for over 35 years and the love affair continues. Lakes and streams for rainbows and cutthroat still interest me, but most of my fishing is now done on British Columbia's remote rivers for summer-run steelhead using a cane two-handed rod and a Grantham Sedge fly.
Besides rodmaking and fishing, my interests include reading, photography, computers, and cycling and hiking for health.
If you want more information about my rods, please feel free to email me.
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