Larry Donahe wants to slow it down. Not just life — though that as well — but the cadence of the fly cast, an already gracefully slow series of motions that allows the skilled angler, armed with rod ...

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 ...

How long does it typically take to produce a bamboo rod in your workshop? I typically spend around 100 hours making a basic bamboo fly rod. With age and experience comes a desire to make each rod ...

Fly fishermen come to Blue Ridge, a small town in the North Georgia mountains called the trout capital of the state, from all over the world to angle year-round. They also come to seek out Bill Oyster ...

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, ...

LANESBORO, Minn. — Steve Sobieniak knew what a good fly fishing rod felt like. He developed a feel for the graceful casting tool, particularly ones made of bamboo. He could pick one up, hold it, test ...

I had owed Jim Downes a visit since last June when I wrangled his little 7 ½-foot Garrison 206 away from him at PA Fly Fishing Heritage Day. That rod has a beautiful, smooth, full-flexing action very ...

BOYNE CITY — A lifetime of fishing and a love for the outdoors keeps 90-year-old Alex Wolff young at heart and working with his hands to create one-of-a-kind bamboo fly-fishing rods. Wolff keeps busy ...

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 ...

VICTORIA, Minn. — Larry Donahe wants to slow it down. Not just life — though that as well — but the cadence of the fly cast, an already gracefully slow series of motions that allows the skilled angler ...

The bamboo in the burlap sacks beside the driveway once rose on the sage hills of China's Guangdong Province. A river runs through it. It's the kind of place where ancient artists and intellects once ...

Jerry Kustich shows bamboo in the early stages of production to become fly rods. Kustich and Glenn Brackett founded Sweetgrass Rods three years ago and are putting up a new building on Main Street in ...