CNY Outdoors Veteran fly rod maker offers tips for angler wanting to make his or her own Published: Feb. 19, 2012, 5:50 a.m.

I'm getting anxious now. Tom Smithwick, who moved to Shippensburg several years ago, builds bamboo fly rods. A couple weeks ago, he found three bamboo rod blanks and offered to ...

He’s painting with his fly rod. With each cast, paint-soaked yarn will strike the polycarbonate canvas. Amid the flow of any river, he will find the expansive empire beneath the surface.

Fishing report: Great white shark caught off Seaside Heights, released by fishermen The last one I have left from the batch is an E665L-HG. They perfected rod blanks when they made this one.

Last year, Washington State-based Fikkes introduced the world’s first fishing pole/trekking pole. The contraption houses a fishing rod blank inside a hollow aluminum trekking pole.

The inner rod is built with fishing industry veteran G.Loomis custom fishing blanks and Black Diamond Flick Locks. Extended, the setup measures eight feet long.