Best of Rhode Island 2008 Editors' Picks

We've never understood the fishing mystique. All that waxing and waning, all that effort when all we had to do was cruise to the market for salt-water fillets. But that was before we found the custom rods at Wickford Rodworks. The compact shop carries more mundane items like sinkers and lures, but it's their lovely lean fly rods that have made us believers.