The man on the other end of the phone was noticeably hesitant, perhaps even a little embarrassed. He had spent 34 years in the quiet, comfortable background of the sport-fishing industry, most ...

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 ...

Flat feet kept Kevin Proctor out of the military. But they didn’t keep him from taking up the sport of fly-fishing. So when the 59-year-old son of a Marine wanted to demonstrate his admiration for ...

It was familiar fishing advice in an unusual setting. Because I wasn’t standing on a boat, but in the shop of Snake River Custom Rods owners Ricky and Goldie Prieto. And the line I was keeping tight ...

When it comes to making custom fishing rods, Barry Weaver employs many skills. Weaver alternates among being a woodworker, an engineer, a lathe operator, a technician and an assembler. And when it ...

For 5 Questions this week, the Herald speaks to Adam Omlid, who runs Aro Custom Rods, from his home in Grand Forks. A: It’s not my full-time job, it started out as a hobby. I started it about seven ...

Entrepreneurs are risk takers. When it comes to investing and creating *** business, you must be creative. Problem solvers and I've been waiting for that aha moment of there's *** problem that needs ...

I've always subscribed to the "hot rods and Harleys go hand-in-hand" school of thought. And since I've gotten back into the rod and custom groove, I've been giving this fact a lot of thought.

Dick Zrudsky will customize a fishing rod -- free -- for anyone who can catch a fish bigger than the one he caught in 1969. Zrudsky makes and designs custom fishing rods from his Englewood home. He ...

ARCHBALD – From Pittsburgh Steelers colors to a stack of skulls to match a client’s tattoos, Mike Kozlowski has decked out his goods to suit his customers’ tastes for years. But the work he does goes ...