If you go What: The sixth annual Colorado Cane Conclave, a gathering of anglers who build, collect and fish bamboo rods and other vintage tackle When: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 7 Where: Planet Bluegras… ...

SOUTH PORTLAND — Bamboo fly rods run upward of $1,500 and $2,000. That’s not the kind of cottage industry that would make it in a poor economy. Unless you’re in Maine.

I’d gone to the river in the afternoon mostly on a whim with the idea that I’d cast the John Bradford 7-foot, 5-weight bamboo fly rod that my friend, the late John Gierach, left to me in his will.

Making a bamboo drift boat is just like making a bamboo fly rod – times 10. “Instead of 700 hours, this is about 70 hours,” Ron Knowles said of the handmade fishing gear he makes at his home ...

A South Bend man is free on bond but wearing a GPS device to track his location after he was charged with using a drone to try to fly drugs into the Westville Correctional Facility. Zamale Davis ...

Art Weiler has been turning pliable wooden strips into bamboo fly fishing rods for 40 years and now he builds and sells rods from his home with the passion that comes from a lifetime of fly fishing.

The Bowling Green Hot Rods (22-15, 53-51) defeated the South Bend Cubs (15-22, 54-52) 8-1 in front of a crowd of 6,184 on Monday night at Four Winds Field.