Tom Hanks on Winston's Answering Machine

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Artist by Nature

Short documentary on master rod builder Gary Lacey. 

The Rods of Lyons

Gordon Wickstrom profiles Lyons Colorado based Michael D. Clark, the man behind South Creek Ltd. custom handmade rods.

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Could the future of fishing rods be triangular?

After 30 years of making prosthetic hearts and artificial blood vessels fly-fishing physicist Dr. Chris Underwood realised he could adapt the same technology to develop his D-Flex rod technology

D-Flex’ technology allows the manufacture of rods with an over-emphasised ‘spine’, meaning they are significantly stiffer bending one way than the other.

According to Underwood, the D-Flex cross section reduces stress loading, making casting control easier, more accurate and significantly more powerful, and can be used to make rods for fly fishing, spinning, waggler fishing, distance casting and even pole fishing.

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Stranded fisherman rescued, hangs onto new fly rod

Somebody should give this guy a rod sponsorship.

"I told him to drop the pole as I was trying to help him, but he wouldn't," Cipollo said. "He said he just got it.

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Original lost 'Trout Bum Rod' surfaces in Kalispell

For years it was famously lost, but the golden bamboo wonder with the distinctive "Trout Bum" name and "001" serial number inscriptions has surfaced in the Flathead Valley, soon to be auctioned for a children's charity.

It is an 8-foot, five-weight bamboo rod built by master rod maker George Maurer for John Gierach, a well-known author of fly fishing books and articles.

The "Trout Bum" inscription on the rod refers to a book of the same title written by Gierach.

The rod mysteriously went missing when it was shipped to Gierach's home in Colorado in the early 1990s, a loss that Gierach described in frustration in an article in a 1993 edition of Fly Rod and Reel magazine.

The rod will be auctioned online as a fundraiser for Intermountain in Kalispell, an organization that provides mental and emotional health services for children.

The rod comes with two tips, a custom-made glass case, a framed copy of the 1993 Rod and Reel magazine with the "Lost Rod" article, a copy of "Another Lousy Day in Paradise," and the recent letter of authenticity from Gierach.

The auction has yet to be arranged, but it will likely be advertised in advance in specialty publications such as Fly Rod and Reel magazine.

LINK (Via: Northwest Montana Daily Interlake)

Tom at the Trout Underground reported on this story back in April