Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Per Brandin, one of the nation's foremost builders of fine bamboo fishing rods, still recalls the ...

You could use one of those fancy side-scan sonar depth finders with the new underwater fish-eye orthographic readouts. Or you could go cut a switch of bamboo and do a little cane-pole fishing. If you ...

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Hunters traded nets and falcons for shotguns in pursuit of game birds some 500 years ago. Wing-shooting certainly still has its nostalgic protocols, its aesthetics, even its pretensions. But when the ...

It's the time of year to catch a mess of bream. In old Florida, that meant fishing with a traditional cane pole. As it turns out, finding the fish is easier than finding the pole. Once a common thing ...

My first fishing rod cost 10s 6d (52.5p in today's money). It was made of cane and wasn't very good. It died, eventually, of misuse. Last week, I received an email from a pile-'em-high tackle show, ...

The history of fly fishing in America has been well documented, but angling historians remain somewhat conflicted regarding some of its finer details. For example, many believe the art originated in ...

Apart from a few survivors from the far off days of Spanish reed and greenheart, the only fishing rods you're likely to see casting nowadays are made of carbon fibre, hollow fibreglass or split bamboo ...

CANON CITY, Colo. ” An inmate has turned a fishy idea into a profitable business for Correctional Industries, providing education, job skills and therapy for fellow prisoners. “I used to make cane and ...