Brad Smith co-founded and owns Walton Rods, which manufactures primarily fly rods for fishing. (IBJ photo/Chad Williams) Although he’s traveled the world to catch all manner of fish in all manner of ...

A Lake Superior troller, John Ehlers grew tired of losing fish. He knew it happened when his line was momentarily slack after it released from a downrigger cable or a planer board. So Ehlers started ...

In this ongoing column, The Digest, Entrepreneur.com News Director Stephen J. Bronner speaks with food entrepreneurs and executives to see what it took to get their products into the mouths of ...

Last week I manned a booth at a convention trade show in Sitka. The Alaska Travel Industry Association’s end-of-season meetup offers insiders a sneak peek at some of the new travel options around the ...

Ray Scott’s vision came on a rainy Saturday in March 1967 when he was lying on a Ramada Inn bed in Jackson, Miss., watching TV in his underwear. He was an Alabama-born insurance salesman obsessed by ...

Jul. 5—It's safe to say that Colby Ralls, a 16-year-old incoming junior at Terra Linda High School, is Marin's youngest fishing entrepreneur. Yet fishing has been in the San Rafael resident's blood ...

Layoffs have made headlines over the last year, particularly in tech and finance. But while losing your job can be a huge source of stress and disruption, it can also be a chance to change focus.

Mark Zaslavsky sleeps with the fishes. No, he’s not the victim of a Godfather-style rubout. But when Sturgeon Aquafarms imported its first live belugas after a seven-year slog of red tape, he slept ...