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, ...

Nothing, but nothing, casts quite like a handcrafted bamboo fly rod — not fiberglass, not graphite, nor any of the other space-age, cooked-up-in-a-laboratory, man-made, plastic resin composites. Got ...

I've always thought of Hardy as a fly reel company. High end quality English reels with a lot of history. I was reluctant to the idea of fishing a Hardy fly rod, especially one built for the salt.

At one time, Rick Miller owned 97 bamboo fly rods. He’s down to a more sensible 14 these days — but he also has a tattoo across his back of a fly fisherman casting to a trout. Miller, a former ...

Cost: General admission fee is $45, including meal. Attendees are allowed to fish a half-mile private stretch of the North St. Vrain Creek (Colorado fishing license required, and bring your own ...

Some years ago, George Black happened upon a split bamboo fly rod in an antiques mall in Stillwater, Okla. A fly fisher of but a few years, he bought it for $87.50 and thought he had something special ...

Larry Donahe wants to slow it down. Not just life — though that as well — but the cadence of the fly cast, an already gracefully slow series of motions that allows the skilled angler, armed with rod ...

Fly fishing guide and outdoor photographer Daniel Shepler shares his favorite classic rods and reels for Northern Michigan fly fishing. His recommendations were originally featured in “Fly Fishing: ...