Of course, when he's casting about, Stutzman uses his signature poles. His forearm moves like clockwork as the line follows forward and back. Bass strike every few casts. Or, more accurately, daughter Kim's specialty. She does much of the handle handiwork on a lathe at the family shop.
Every piece is so different.
You never know what you are going to get when you start. As she talks, a parade of raccoons, rabbits and deer come to the water's edge. Bighorn sheep, the prize animal of the canyon, stay well up in the hills despite the Stutzmans' salt lick. Kim had an indirect hand in starting her dad's business. In the early 1990s, his longtime hobby started to become something more when she asked for a spinning rod.