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Article: Wilmette man revives art with bamboo fishing rods
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- Glencoe News (IL)
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- May 30, 2002
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STAFF WRITER
Rob Hoffhines' home workshop is not one of those made-for-TV affairs with bright lights and shiny new table saws. This is authentic Old School basement, with stacks of belongings, bare light bulbs and forehead-level pipes laying in ambush for the unwary.
It's not glamorous, but about once every month Hoffhines will craft a piece of art from among this that will command almost $1,000 from the right person.
Hoffhines, of Wilmette, is part of a small brotherhood of fishing rod makers reviving the trade in hand-built bamboo fly rods. "Fly fishing has gone through a great resurgence in the last 15 years. The industry has just gone crazy. This is a subsection of that," Hoffhines said.