Chet Kiekhafer’s business requires the accuracy of an engineer, the steady hands of a surgeon, the creativity of an artist, and the mastery of an avid angler. Kiekhafer of Hutchinson incorporates each ...

Neil Faulkner used to watch his father assemble fishing rods using baby food jars and a dictionary. The old man would put thread in the jars and feed it through the big book of words toward the rod, ...

When Dennis Evans isn’t out fly-fishing, he’s usually hunkered down in his small Toppenish shop replacing guides, cork handles or reel seats on fly rods. “I can do anything that needs to be fixed on a ...

Building fishing rods is a productive way to spend winter evenings. A few hours of work will result in a rod better than anything you can buy off the rack. Of course it will take you a few rods of ...

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 ...

Roads are clear along the Shore, but it's questionable when fishing will resume. Water temperatures will probably fall further with the melting snow, and there wasn't much surf action with school ...