Around 30 veterans learned to build fishing rods on Saturday, Sept. 29, at the Titan Project's Reeling in Vets fishing rod making workshop at Veterans Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids. The Titan ...

CHISHOLM — If there’s ever a tornado warning for this Iron Range town, Mike Lesch will likely be safe. That’s because he already spends a lot of time in his basement shop, where he turns drab sticks ...

CHISHOLM, Minn. — If there’s ever a tornado warning for this Iron Range town, Mike Lesch will likely be safe. That’s because he already spends a lot of time in his basement shop, where he turns drab ...

When it comes to making custom fishing rods, Barry Weaver employs many skills. Weaver alternates among being a woodworker, an engineer, a lathe operator, a technician and an assembler. And when it ...

He set out to build a low cost fishing rod rack using only PVC parts and a few simple tools. The project covered separate ...

It doesn't take a mountain of money or work by a professional shop to have a nice hot rod. To be sure, many (not all) of the hot rods that win prestigious awards and get featured in magazines are the ...

Mel Dickie, of Rochester, is a longtime, well-respected craftsman of custom fishing rods. The retired insurance agent and World War II veteran spends his weekdays at Wild Goose Sports on North ...

The man on the other end of the phone was noticeably hesitant, perhaps even a little embarrassed. He had spent 34 years in the quiet, comfortable background of the sport-fishing industry, most ...

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