Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Alan Kube stops short of calling it a religious experience. But in a heartbeat, by the waters of the South Platte River near Deckers, his life was forever ...

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 ...

ESKO -- When Phil Johnson was in college, making $3 an hour working summers at the paper mill in Cloquet, he saved enough to buy himself a bamboo fly rod. "I bought an Orvis Battenkill," says Johnson, ...

AMHERST - Richard Taupier is a scholar and expert in Central Asian history at the University of Massachusetts, often traveling to places such as Mongolia or Russia for study. But, when you Google his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It could be a trip back in time and an appreciation for the way things were: Fly fishing for trout in the Lehigh River with a bamboo rod. A homemade picnic lunch stream-side. Bunking down in a ...