The Trout Underground Fly Fishing Blog » sweetwater bamboo fly rods http://troutunderground.com Fly Fishing's Fun, Independent Voice : Tom Chandler's Fly Fishing Life : Fly Rods are the Measure of Life Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:45:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Friday Bad News Post http://troutunderground.com/2008/02/the-friday-bad-news-post/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-friday-bad-news-post http://troutunderground.com/2008/02/the-friday-bad-news-post/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:16:03 +0000 Tom Chandler http://tomchandler.name/2008/02/22/the-friday-bad-news-post/ We’ve heading into the deeper reaches of winter when life can start to feel a little like an Ingmar Bergman movie, and it doesn’t help when the phone rings and you find out friend and bamboo rod builder George Maurer just passed away due to a heart attack.

George was a top rod builder, and more importantly, he was a hell of a guy who ended up teaching more bamboo rod building classes than any builder alive.

A whole generation of contemporary rod builders owe a lot to George, and I will miss him.

One can only hope George is finally fishing with his good friend Harry Middleton on a stream where the wind blows small, and the trout run big.

Godspeed, George. I’ll tip one to you next time I’m on the river.

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