When Dennis Evans isn’t out fly-fishing, he’s usually hunkered down in his small Toppenish shop replacing guides, cork handles or reel seats on fly rods. “I can do anything that needs to be fixed on a ...

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 ...

“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.” On the Madison ...

It’s hard to comprehend how Becky Loyd of Iowa City can create the elaborate, artistic, and superbly functional fishing rods she does unless you see her in action. Or, unless you are an angler of ...