Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fly fishermen come to Blue Ridge, a small town in the North Georgia mountains called the trout capital of the state, from all over ...

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 ...

FREMONT -- Wes Cooper won't be fishing today, the opening day of trout fishing season. He is more likely to be in his basement shop making bamboo fly rods. Cooper, 81, has built 245 such rods since he ...

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 ...

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 ...

ANACORTES — Tom Fulk is an artist. His medium isn’t paint, charcoal, glass, metal or stone. It’s bamboo. Once a piece is completed, the 76-year-old retiree has transformed the largest member of the ...

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 ...

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, ...

A dare a decade ago has led Scott Nilsson on an endless quest to meticulously build customized supple and durable split cane bamboo fly rods. “A friend was a fisheries biologist in Boise and dropped ...