The first step in building a custom rod is finding the spine. That is after one has selected a rod blank from all the options available. My nephew, Tegan Winters, is a game warden in Montana. For a ...

This is where works of art are created. Ask any fly-fisherman and they know the name Bob Summers. These aren’t just rods — these are hand crafted pieces of perfection. And Bob has been making them for ...

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 ...