The workshop

Broken rods. Tired reels. Bring them in.

Rochester has its own rod and reel repair workshop. Ian Todd started the repair and rod-building side of the business, and the work is still done in house.

Bring it to the shop Ask about a repair

A spinning reel on a rod, close up, at dawn

How a repair works.

1
Bring it in
The rod, all its pieces, or the reel. If you know how it broke or what it’s been fishing (salt water especially), tell us.
2
We look at it
You get advice on what’s worth fixing and a quote before any work starts.
3
Fixed or rebuilt
Rods repaired or rebuilt. Reels serviced, with spares carried for a lot of the common makes.

Advice and quotes happen at the counter, so bring it in during shop hours.

Made by Rochester

Some of it we make ourselves.

Photographs from the shop’s first website, around 2011.

An angler fly fishing from a Waterbug kick boat on a dam

The Waterbug laid out on grass: pontoons, seat, rod holder, stripping tray and bags

The Waterbug kick boat

Handcrafted by Rochester. You sit out of the water and move with flippers, and it’s small enough to get where a boat can’t. It folds into one bag.

In the bag: Two pontoons, a collapsible chair, a rod holder, a stripping tray, and two bags: one on the pontoon for small things, one behind the seat for food, drinks and the camera.
You add: A pump, a valve adaptor and your own flippers.

Bait boxes

Two sizes, both carried like a backpack, for the rocks and the surf.

Large: Bait board, two drawers, and a hook and line tray.
Small: Bait board and a hook and line tray.

Two Rochester bait boxes open, with a bait board and tackle trays

Collapsible buckets
Rochester’s own, for the boat and the bank.
Flies
Tied in the shop. Fly fishing
Lead shot
No. 5, 6, 7, 7.5 and 9, minimum order 10 kg. 28 g and 32 g wads. Come to the shop and speak to Mark.

Not sure it’s worth fixing?

Bring it in. Some rods and reels are worth the repair and some aren’t, and we’ll say which.

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