Standing on the bow of Captain Frank Crescitelli's 25-foot boat, preparing to cast a fly into Jamaica Bay, we expect another hit from a feisty bluefish or burly striped bass.

FORBES: Urban Angling

Every few years a new generation of graphite was introduced in pursuit of what had become the fly-fishing grail: allowing flies to be cast farther and farther.

FORBES: Tom Morgan: Tragedy and Triumph

By doing this, rod-makers shrewdly appealed to the way most fishermen road-test a rod: in a fly shop parking lot, where, inevitably, they try to cast as far as they can.

FORBES: Tom Morgan: Tragedy and Triumph