Late last year, Jonas Clark reached out to the owner of Vintage Fly Tackle, an online dealer of ultrafine rods, reels and other fly-fishing equipment coveted by the sport’s most ardent collectors. For weeks his emails and phone calls to the founder’s widow, Laura Siemer, went unanswered. Clark, 38, sent a handwritten letter in which he described his passion for bamboo rods and English-made Hardy reels. Clark runs the Spinoza Rod Company with his stepfather, Marc Aroner, who has been crafting bamboo rods out of hard-to-find...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 06, 2020 12:22 UTC