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 ...

VIRGINIA BEACH Getting a custom-built rod from Wayne Fowlkes always came with a bonus. Fishing stories. Fowlkes loved to hear them, loved to tell them. “I remember the day I met him at his sh… ...

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 ...

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 ...

“One thing about Montana,” says Matt Barber, an owner of Tom Morgan Rodsmiths, a custom fly rod shop in Bozeman, “is if there’s a moving body of water, there is probably a trout in it.” ...