A fly fishing rod crafted by Thomas & Thomas is "the rod you will eventually own." That's the slogan employed by the Greenfield-based company, and it's a hook bound to catch both avid and new ...

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 ...

BACK IN MAY, I drove to Yarmouth, Maine, to visit the Maine Fly Co. 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 ...

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 ...

The combination of weight, power, and action creates a balanced combo that is easy to learn on. The Greys GR60 combines performance and value in this fast-action trout rod. Fly fishing rods are ...

Flat feet kept Kevin Proctor out of the military. But they didn’t keep him from taking up the sport of fly-fishing. So when the 59-year-old son of a Marine wanted to demonstrate his admiration for ...

As we polled into the back of a creek not much wider than the skiff, our guide said you’re only going to get one shot at these fish. We turned a bend and there they were just 50 feet away, tails out ...

If you haven't fly fished with any of the new fiberglass rods being built today, you are missing out. "Glass" has a feel and rhythm to it that you won't find in carbon fiber. These aren't the heavy ...

The modern-day trout angler has a vast array of fly rods to choose from. As someone who’s spent far too much time in fly shops looking at and thinking about all these options, I understand how ...

JAHC: “Conundrum,” Juneau Arts & Culture Center, 350 Whittier St, 4:30-7 p.m. The show features paintings by Timi Johnson, Patrick Ripp, Teri Robus and Barbara Shepherd. It features four artists, ...

Fast, Extra Fast, Supremely Extra Fast, So fast you are into your forward cast before you even back cast. Back in the day, it ...