The OceanGirl saltwater line offers only the best in inshore, and sport fishing rods. All OceanGirl rods are made with a top of the line e-glass blank.

I'm getting anxious now. Tom Smithwick, who moved to Shippensburg several years ago, builds bamboo fly rods. A couple weeks ago, he found three bamboo rod blanks and offered to ...

Fishing report: Great white shark caught off Seaside Heights, released by fishermen The last one I have left from the batch is an E665L-HG. They perfected rod blanks when they made this one.

Avid saltwater anglers know the stubby fish-fighting rods as Whopper Stoppers. They are short fishing tools, only 46 inches long, that make short work of albacore, yellowtail and tuna. Novice angle… ...

They took worms and a few poles, and Rutherford soon cast a line from his 3-year-old daughter's pink fishing pole out into the 1.5-acre pond.

A blank is the rod itself, without any accessories such as grips, reel seats (to mount the fishing reel), artwork, line guides and tip. Using American-made blanks is important to us.

Seeing a pink fishing rod really made me wonder, though... How much good do all these pink-branded items really do?

What makes a kayak rod? Kevin Nakada covers the basics. Hints: a short butt for fishing while sitting down is a good place to start.

In a remarkable fishing feat, a man from the US state of West Virginia set a new state record for channel catfish using a $10 pink fishing rod he had bought for his three-year-old daughter.

Attorneys for Loomis say he owns the rights to his signature and that his new company — Woodland-based North Fork Composites — makes rod blanks, the poles that are made into fishing rods.

The serious side is making the rods. They turn the cork by hand, use carbon blanks and put titanium guides, because they don’t freeze shut as fast, on the ice-fishing rods.

A Wayne County, West Virginia, man set a new record for the channel catfish by reeling in the catch with a $9.99 hot pink fishing rod he purchased for his daughter.