If there ever were any worry that the art of making split bamboo fly rods would die out ... This year's topics included making ferrules, making rod bags, judging the effects of under- and over ...

Picture a straight line coming out of the tip of your fly rod, parallel to the ground. If you keep your rod tip along that line throughout your backcast and release, you’ll throw tight loops.

. I was there to pick up a custom fly rod they’d made for me and to go fishing with owner and founder Jeff Davis. I expected to find a warehouse with heavy machinery and assembly lines, but inst ...

TWIN BRIDGES -- A fire in Twin Bridges early Sunday gutted an R.L. Winston Rod Co. building containing bamboo fly fishing rods, and knocked out the electricity in some homes for several hours.

Driving with fly rods can be a hassle. Keep them in rod tubes and rig up at the water, or try to position them through the middle of the car? Neither solution is ideal. I made the switch to a rod ...

Meet the sought-after professional bamboo fly rod maker who personally hand engraves his own rods—and puts them to apt use ...

Tom Morgan, a past owner of the R.L. Winston Rod Company whose quest to build flawless fly fishing rods continued ... to learn how to craft perfect bamboo, graphite and fiberglass rods.

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