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 ...

Finding your passion in life is everyone’s goal and if you’re lucky enough, you can sometimes figure it out at a young age. For Christian Bueter, he discovered that building and wrapping fishing rods ...

Building custom fishing rods is tougher than it looks, if you ask Bartels Middle School student Dray Kopecky. But maybe that’s the best way to learn. “People might not think it would be such a task.

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Not that he is that long in the tooth, but Randy Emerich has been building custom fishing rods so long that when he began they were still known as poles and the people using them were fishermen, ...

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 ...