A few days before Christmas, a gentleman from Rouses Point walked into the shop with a container that held a set of bamboo fly-rod blanks he had purchased 25 years earlier at the Orvis store in ...

Central New York is full of die-hard, trout and salmon anglers who tie their own artificial flies. Ever consider making your own fly rod? Don’t be intimidated. It’s not as difficult or expensive as ...

I'm getting anxious now. Tom Smithwick, who moved to Shippensburg several years ago, builds bamboo fly rods. A couple weeks ago, he found three bamboo rod blanks and offered to help me build out a fly ...