The historical marker at S. Third and Pine streets, just south of Centre Square, Easton, indicates where Samuel Phillippe invented the split-bamboo fishing rod in the United States. He made the first ...

ANTHONY: OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS, THE DEERFIELD RIVER HAS BECOME A GO TO DESTINATION FOR ADVENTURE JUNKIES. RAFTING COMPANIES LIKE ZOAR OUTDOORS AND CRABTRE WHITEWATER HAVE RIDDEN A SURGE IN POPULARITY ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Tom Moran created exquisitely-fashioned split-cane fishing rods, and was regarded as a master of his craft. While many fly-fishermen ...

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, ...

Many who fish with split-cane bamboo fly rods say they allow a depth of feeling when casting or reeling in a fish that just isn’t possible with today’s more common graphite rods. When Selah’s Kevin ...

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FLUSHING – It wasn’t so much about what we were going to catch as how we were going to catch them, said Dirk Fischbach, one of the more dedicated fly fishermen I know. That we were going to fish with ...

Tom Moran, who has died aged 66, created exquisitely-fashioned split-cane fishing rods, and was regarded as a master of his craft. While many fly-fishermen today favour rods made from graphite or ...

I bought my first bamboo fly rod in the 1970s at a garage sale in Boulder. It was a beat-up 3-piece, 9-footer with chromed ferrules and two tip sections. One of the tips was 2 inches short, which ...