. I was there to pick up a custom fly rod they’d made for me and to go fishing with owner and founder Jeff Davis. I expected to find a warehouse with heavy machinery and assembly lines, but inst ...

I live only a few miles away from Tom Morgan Rodsmiths, a custom fly rod shop in Bozeman ... with gold ink, and wrap shiny agate guides on bamboo, using garnet thread and extra fine brass wire.

Artistic thread-wrapping or weaving in custom designs accents ... He broke his favorite fly rod while fishing out west some 25 years ago, which prompted her to take classes and build him a new ...

I bought my first bamboo fly rod in the 1970s at a garage sale ... you wrapped the line guides back on the blank with rod wrapping thread and then varnished the “wraps” ...