When it comes to making custom fishing rods, Barry Weaver employs many skills.

Custom rod building begins with the blank. Johnson uses St. Croix and Fenwick blanks. He orders them by the dozen and they arrive at his home packed in heavy cardboard tubes.

Not content with off-the-shelf brands, custom rods quickly set the standard for offshore fishing.

Maine Fly Company builds off-the-shelf and custom fly rods by hand in Maine, USA. Here's a look at how they do it.

Next Saturday, the best custom rod builders in the world will converge on High Point at the Showplace Center for the International Custom rod Building Exposition.

Building an ice fishing rod takes 3 to 4 hours, he says, depending on whether a customer orders a manufactured handle or a custom handle; the curing process takes another 48 hours or so.

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 ...

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

Pat Magdaleno moved from MMA fighter and charter captain to building his Mags Custom Rods from scratch.

The sixth annual North Central Regional Chapter of the Custom Rod Builders Guild will meet Aug. 17-19 in Park Falls, Wis. Co-hosted by St. Croix Rods, the get-together features an exchange and ...

Metal fabricator McClain Phelan sands areas as he makes medications to a hood for a 1963 Chevy Corvette to make a functional ram air at Eddie's Rod and Custom, 2015 Werner Court NE, in northeast ...