Bamboo is like Mother Nature's version of PVC I recently found a nice little patch that I can go get some anytime I need it for free. My 1" diameter bamboo pushpole in the pic works great so far. I don't have a stern mounted poling platform (yet), so I stand on the casting deck in the bow instead and it works very well. I can even use it in sort of a kayak paddle fashion to move myself along in shallow water. I just lashed it to the top of the rub rails using some large velcro straps I cut down to size and mounted with a single SS screw and aluminum finishing washer. I was amazed at how stable it is/was. It barley moves when I'm towing, or underway on the water. I painted both cut ends and every other section mostly just for looks, but it seems to have sealed the ends a bit and greatly slowed the drying process, which has keep that pole nice and green and pliable even after several months exposed to the elements. I'm sure you could make rod holders, cane poles and all sorts of stuff for your boat out of bamboo too. I even saw a pic of a boat with a bamboo floor in his tin boat. He just took lots of pinky sized bamboo the width of his sole and laid them side by and mounted them to a bamboo frame and voila! he had a floor. He can remove the current one to hose out the boat, etc.... after a trip and when it wears out he can just make another one. Heck, you can even eat bamboo when it's young and tender enough. Gotta love it. Now if only nature could devise duct tape that grew on trees, I'd never have to go to Lowes/HD again.