Mike stopped building rods, except for a select few of his regulars, before I moved away from the area 4 years ago. Felicia, his daughter, was in college in RI at the time. I'm sure she's graduated by now.
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That sucks. I always got my gear from Mike and always enjoyed going to his shop. He relined my ZX25 many, many times! I did receive a message from the new owner Nick. Seems like a nice guy. I was also introduced to Glenn from GW Customs and spent a good 1.5 hours at his shop in Wareham...having him build me a 10' 6" custom eel rod. Glenn is a super-nice guy and had a lot of patience and left no stone unturned or question unanswered when designing my rod. I was happy to give him my cash and support a local business. I used to wrap my own but my time is limited these days.(Mike actually sold me the wrapper, thread and blanks and gave me a tutorial on the basics many years ago). I was kinda sad that Mike is no longer in business. He was a super nice guy and created some real works of art with his rod building skills.
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