ROSWELL, Ga. - Dr. Eugenie Clark once said, "Sharing the fun of fishing turns strangers into friends in a few hours," and according to the owners of a unique new shop in metro Atlanta, the scientist ...

When it comes to making custom fishing rods, Barry Weaver employs many skills. Weaver alternates among being a woodworker, an engineer, a lathe operator, a technician and an assembler. And when it ...

The price range for an On the Rise Bamboo Fly Rod is $1,000 on the low end to $3,000 on the high end. You say you custom-design your bamboo rods to the kind of fly fishing your client will perform.

PJ’s Fine Bamboo Rods will open its first brick-and-mortar store in Pagosa Springs on Oct. 8. The custom fly rod maker has been servicing Southwest Colorado with its e-commerce business since 2019, ...

Two is the magic number for one local rod manufacturer. "We really want something that has that high end feel (and) that high end performance. (A fly rod) that’s not going to break your bank," said DJ ...

Flat feet kept Kevin Proctor out of the military. But they didn’t keep him from taking up the sport of fly-fishing. So when the 59-year-old son of a Marine wanted to demonstrate his admiration for ...

“One thing about Montana,” says Matt Barber, an owner of Tom Morgan Rodsmiths, a custom fly rod shop in Bozeman, “is if there’s a moving body of water, there is probably a trout in it.” On the Madison ...

CANON CITY, Colo. ” An inmate has turned a fishy idea into a profitable business for Correctional Industries, providing education, job skills and therapy for fellow prisoners. “I used to make cane and ...

FISHING — A perfectionist in the world of custom fly fishing rods from bamboo to graphite has left the world, but not before leaving his mark on the sport. Here’s the news from the Associated Press: ...

Steve Moran will teach students as they build their own rods in a three-session evening class starting Nov.8 at White's Outdoor. Cost: $60 plus blank and components. Preregister: 535-1875. Class size ...

The man on the other end of the phone was noticeably hesitant, perhaps even a little embarrassed. He had spent 34 years in the quiet, comfortable background of the sport-fishing industry, most ...