Central New York is full of die-hard, trout and salmon anglers who tie their own artificial flies. Ever consider making your own fly rod? Don’t be intimidated. It’s not as difficult or expensive as ...

A few days before Christmas, a gentleman from Rouses Point walked into the shop with a container that held a set of bamboo fly-rod blanks he had purchased 25 years earlier at the Orvis store in ...

Glancing back over his shoulder at 15 gleaming fly rods, Capital High senior Kreston Stevens told the crowd assembled in the machining shop Tuesday evening that he and the five other rod builders had ...