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, ...

Art Weiler stands in front of his garage at the end of a long gravel driveway that leads to his Kunkletown home. He leans over a 12-foot-long bamboo shaft as he splits it into thinner and thinner ...

ESKO, Minn. (AP) - 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," ...