Rod builder Loren Soucie wraps the guides on a Maine Fly Co. signature series rod. Wrapping guides is one of the first steps in the rod-building process. Soucie makes the final pull-through on a ...

Don't be intimidated. It's not as difficult or expensive as one might think, according to veteran rod maker Dave LeClair, of Elbridge, 65, a guru on the local bamboo rod-making and repair scene.

Hatch' is a daily dose of anything fly fishing, human interest, and sometimes from left field. It will be short, sweet, ...

“One thing about Montana,” says Matt Barber, an owner of Tom Morgan Rodsmiths, a custom fly rod shop in Bozeman, “is if there’s a moving body of water, there is probably a trout in it.” ...

Becky uses special loom-like equipment to weave and wrap her rods, or will sometimes do this by hand. ... He broke his favorite fly rod while fishing out west some 25 years ago, ...