. 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 warehouse with heavy machinery and assembly lines, but inst ...

Shari Fodi is really wrapped up in her work. An artful pursuit with a practical application, Fodi's business is custom wrapping fishing rods. Look in a tackle shop and find the high-end rods with ...

They are short fishing tools, only 46 inches long ... “I rode over to his house on my bicycle and he showed me how to wrap rods. Man I was proud of that rod, and I gave that first rod to ...

Wrapping, coating, inspecting also all happen ... Calligraphy is inscribed on a rod. Spin fishing, the type of fishing that most of us are familiar with, involves using a heavy lure with a ...

The last thing I did before I left, fishing-wise, was wrap a Sabre rod blank. That leaves me just one from the batch that I bought almost a decade ago from Veristex, a fishing rod component ...

Determining the best bass fishing rod for a particular purpose is a personalized endeavor. An angler’s physical stature, line choice, and fishing environment are all factors to consider when choosing ...

Artistic thread-wrapping or weaving in custom designs ... But her interests do not stop with fishing rods. She also crafts elaborate fairy houses out of stumps of wood – not for sale, but ...

Immersing yourself in the great outdoors, unwinding, reconnecting with nature and indulging in a sport Herbert Hoover once described as “a chance to wash one’s soul with pure air,” fishing ...