Central New York is full of die-hard, trout and salmon anglers who tie their own artificial flies. Ever consider making your own fly rod? Don’t be intimidated. It’s not as difficult or expensive as ...

For most of the boys, it's a chance to work on something beyond a model rocket or a model World War II bomber. "These rods will be $300 rods when they're done," said Ron Fisher, a volunteer fly rod ...

A few days before Christmas, a gentleman from Rouses Point walked into the shop with a container that held a set of bamboo fly-rod blanks he had purchased 25 years earlier at the Orvis store in ...

Glancing back over his shoulder at 15 gleaming fly rods, Capital High senior Kreston Stevens told the crowd assembled in the machining shop Tuesday evening that he and the five other rod builders had ...

“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 ...

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 ...