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 ...

There are over 150 steps in making a bamboo fishing rod which involve nearly 60 hours of work to actually complete. That’s a lot of work. You can sneak a peak at how it gets done—the carving, the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

FLUSHING – It wasn’t so much about what we were going to catch as how we were going to catch them, said Dirk Fischbach, one of the more dedicated fly fishermen I know. That we were going to fish with ...

The historical marker at S. Third and Pine streets, just south of Centre Square, Easton, indicates where Samuel Phillippe invented the split-bamboo fishing rod in the United States. He made the first ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Per Brandin, one of the nation's foremost builders of fine bamboo fishing rods, still recalls the ...