BUTTE — Despite Sunday’s catastrophic fire, the R.L. Winston Rod Co. is determined to continue making bamboo fly-fishing rods in Twin Bridges, general manager Jeff Wagner said Monday. The fire, at 105 ...

The words leave his lips as though he has spoken them a thousand times before, yet resonate here among the culms of bamboo, ancient rod-building machinery and photos of legendary fish from a lost time ...

PJ’s Fine Bamboo Rods will open its first brick-and-mortar store in Pagosa Springs on Oct. 8. The custom fly rod maker has been servicing Southwest Colorado with its e-commerce business since 2019, ...

TWIN BRIDGES — The four workers who build bamboo fly rods at the R.L. Winston Rod Co. in Twin Bridges have resigned in protest over a dispute with management. Glenn Brackett, Jerry Kustich, Wayne Maca ...

LANESBORO, Minn. — Steve Sobieniak knew what a good fly fishing rod felt like. He developed a feel for the graceful casting tool, particularly ones made of bamboo. He could pick one up, hold it, test ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Manchester, VT, is something of a time capsule. It’s a two-stoplight town lined with marble sidewalks, manicured lawns, and ...

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, ...

See BAMBOO, Page D5 Jim Reams, a bamboo rod maker from Fall River Mills, Calif., said he cast one of Maca’s rods several years ago and it felt like a “rocket launcher.” For traditionalists, the rod ...