Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Alan Kube stops short of calling it a religious experience. But in a heartbeat, by the waters of the South Platte River near Deckers, his life was forever ...

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 ...

FREMONT -- Wes Cooper won't be fishing today, the opening day of trout fishing season. He is more likely to be in his basement shop making bamboo fly rods. Cooper, 81, has built 245 such rods since he ...

A few years ago, a friend mentioned that he had been given a nice bamboo fly rod. It had been sitting in someone’s house for many years, and then in the trunk of a car for half a dozen more. It ...

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Immersing yourself in the great outdoors, unwinding, reconnecting with nature and indulging in a sport Herbert Hoover once described as “a chance to wash one’s soul with pure air,” fishing holds a ...

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 ...

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 ...

FREMONT, MI – In the quiet of his basement workshop, Wes Cooper has been keeping a 90-year-old Michigan tradition alive - that of hand-building bamboo fly rods in an era dominated by mass-produced ...

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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 ...