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Building Fishing Rods

From a fly fishing BFAD (Big-for-a-Day) event, came a partnership that has blossomed across the country, making it possible for matches to spend time together building their very own custom fishing rod, under the tutelage of an experienced custom rod builder.

Neal Hall first attended a fly fishing BFAD in Wichita. Impressed with what he saw of the Pass It On program, Neal contacted the other board members for the Custom Rod Builders Guild and suggested that the organization get invovled. From that beginning, a partnership has grown that has resulted in volunteers from New York, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Texas getting involved with the Pass It On - Outdoor Mentors program and providing rod building classes in their local communities.

In particular, we would like to recognize Ron Walter of Wisconsin. Not only has Ron offered the classes to his local BBBS agency, Ron has traveled the state of Wisconsin, putting on 6-8 classes a year!

Below are some photos from some of the rod building classes that have been held around the country:

Neal is shown explaining how the line guides are to be positioned on the rods.	Neal is looking on as Kalon carefully applies the finishing touches to his rod.
Cobie is working on signing her name on her very own rod!	Big Mark and Little Scott are hard at work putting together their masterpieces!
Mark is intently applying the epoxy to his rod.	Little Scott put together a really nice rod.
That's a hard-working crew!

Not only do the guild members donate their time to put on these classes, a number of manufacturers donate all of the materials needed to build the rods as well. Here is a listing of the manufacturers who have donated thousands of dollars worth of rod building materials to make these classes happen. Thank you everyone!