FREMONT, MI – In the quiet of his basement workshop, Wes Cooper has been keeping a 90-year-old Michigan tradition alive - that of hand-building bamboo fly rods in an era dominated by mass-produced ...

Many who fish with split-cane bamboo fly rods say they allow a depth of feeling when casting or reeling in a fish that just isn’t possible with today’s more common graphite rods. When Selah’s Kevin ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Bill Blackburn’s father bought him his first fly rod at Bargaintown in Manheim, Pa., in 1958. It ...

Cost: General admission fee is $45, including meal. Attendees are allowed to fish a half-mile private stretch of the North St. Vrain Creek (Colorado fishing license required, and bring your own ...

FREMONT -- Wes Cooper won't be fishing today, the opening day of trout fishing season. He is more likely to be in his basement shop making bamboo fly rods. Cooper, 81, has built 245 such rods since he ...

"A cane rod is hidden inside the culm of bamboo. The rod maker's task is to bring it out." For rod maker Pete Carboni, that is more than a saying. It's the guiding principle that governs his ...

BUTTE — Despite Sunday’s catastrophic fire, the R.L. Winston Rod Co. is determined to continue making bamboo fly-fishing rods in Twin Bridges, general manager Jeff Wagner said Monday. The fire, at 105 ...

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, ...

All students of fly fishing will agree that Tonkin bamboo was the superior material for building a classic fly rod, and most will concur that Tonkin bamboo was correctly named: Arundaria amabilis ...

You could use one of those fancy side-scan sonar depth finders with the new underwater fish-eye orthographic readouts. Or you could go cut a switch of bamboo and do a little cane-pole fishing. If you ...

I'm getting anxious now. Tom Smithwick, who moved to Shippensburg several years ago, builds bamboo fly rods. A couple weeks ago, he found three bamboo rod blanks and offered to help me build out a fly ...

The words leave his lips as though he has spoken them a thousand times before, yet resonate here among the culms of bamboo, ancient rod-building machinery and photos of legendary fish from a lost time ...