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 ...

Learning curve Learning to build a quality fishing rod was a process of trial-and-error, Greene says. Gradually, though, he honed the trade, and his custom rods are works of art.

Dick Zrudsky will customize a fishing rod -- free -- for anyone who can catch a fish bigger than the one he caught in 1969. Zrudsky makes and designs custom fishing rods from his Englewood home. He… ...

Chet Kiekhafer of Hutchinson built a custom fishing rod after retiring from 3M five years ago. Then, he built one for his wife, then for family members and friends, and then he started his own ...

Rob Horken talks about building custom rods Tuesday, May 22 in his East Grand Forks shop. Known for years as "Ernie the Angler" on WDAZ-TV's weekly summer fishing reports, Horken retired four ...

A custom fishing rod made by Mike Lesch, of Chisholm, includes the name of the lucky 12-year-old angler who will receive the spinning rod as a gift from his grandparents.

Snake River Custom Rods is an Idaho-owned business that lets anglers building their own fishing rods, from ice fishing rods to sturgeon rods.

A custom fishing rod made by Mike Lesch includes the name of the lucky 12-year-old angler who will receive the spinning rod as a gift from his grandparents, seen in Lesch’s basement shop in ...

With his own knowledge and a small cache of library books, Loyd has taught other inmates the skills of building fishing rods and fly-tying. By early February, the inmates had made nearly 100 custom ...

Broner is on track to sell $100,000 worth of custom fishing rods that he personally makes from his home in Idaho, with his profit margin being "about half," by the end of the year. "I hand build ...

Weckherlin, just 22, is a custom rod builder and owner of Rod Workshops, which he operates out of his garage in southwest Arlington. It's a small business now, with a chance to grow much larger.

Once Bueter mastered the art of building custom rods and wrapping them with decorative thread and paint, Shervy decided to focus on commercial fishing and left his clients to Bueter.