Bamboo became a popular material for fishing rods in the late-19th century but quickly was replaced with other materials — metal and, later, fiberglass. Modern graphite is considered by many to be the ...

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 ...

Nothing, but nothing, casts quite like a handcrafted bamboo fly rod — not fiberglass, not graphite, nor any of the other space-age, cooked-up-in-a-laboratory, man-made, plastic resin composites. Got ...

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 ...

ESKO, Minn.—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 ...

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 ...

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 ...