It doesn't take a mountain of money or work by a professional shop to have a nice hot rod. To be sure, many (not all) of the hot rods that win prestigious awards and get featured in magazines are the ...

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 ...