Overview
William Bill Oyster is a full-time career bamboo fly rod maker. Each Oyster Bamboo Fly Rod is intensely hand crafted and personally hand engraved. Bill has been commissioned to make rods for many of the world's finest anglers including President Jimmy Carter. As the most prolific teacher of this rod making art alive today, Bill draws students from as far away as England and Scotland as well as every corner of the US to his southern mountain town studio in Blue Ridge.
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