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 ...

Whether you've put a hairline crack in your ferrule, snapped a guide, or lost a tip, the repair is the same; basic rod wrapping. Except for your grip, everything that's attached to your rod is simply, ...

When I first used a spiral-wrapped rod on a party boat, I got some strange looks," Darin Dohi laughs. Dohi's conventional rod had the first line guide on top of the blank, the second guide at an ...