When I first used a spiral-wrapped rod on a party boat, I got some strange looks,” Darin Dohi laughs. Dohi’s conventional rod had the first line guide on top of the blank, the second guide at an ...

Steve Moran will teach students as they build their own rods in a three-session evening class starting Nov.8 at White's Outdoor. Cost: $60 plus blank and components. Preregister: 535-1875. Class size ...

Anyone who considers fishing his or her passion likely has a corner of the garage that stores old rods with one or more missing guides. Maybe the rods were expensive and ranked among the angler's ...