Fine bamboo rods are rooted in angling tradition. Names such as Leonard, Payne, Edwards, Thomas, Garrison, Gillum and Dickerson are just a few of the “classic” bamboo rod makers of years past. Today ...
Butte’s Glenn Brackett is one of the country’s renowned makers of bamboo fly rods, but first and foremost he’s a fisherman. Brackett, 73, is co-owner of Sweetgrass Rods in Twin Bridges, and he says he ...
ESKO, Minn.—When Phil Johnson was in college, making $3 an hour working summers at the paper mill in Cloquet, he saved enough to buy himself a bamboo fly rod. “I bought an Orvis Battenkill,” says ...
FREMONT -- Wes Cooper won't be fishing today, the opening day of trout fishing season. He is more likely to be in his basement shop making bamboo fly rods. Cooper, 81, has built 245 such rods since he ...
ESKO -- When Phil Johnson was in college, making $3 an hour working summers at the paper mill in Cloquet, he saved enough to buy himself a bamboo fly rod. "I bought an Orvis Battenkill," says Johnson, ...