Hi folks, I'm Don Wells, owner of WELLS FISHING INC., and I specialize in quality, braided line for commercial fishing, as well as many other uses.

Do you have blinds in your home? Chances are the twine used to string them up is a braided nylon line product. How about drapes? The pull cord is a firm or hard lay braided product probably made of nylon. Looked at a jump ropes lately? Yes, there too. And how about a tether ball rope?

How did I learn so much about braided line? I spent 17 years working maintenance for Western Transportation, in first line management. This company operates tugboats and barges on the Willamette and Columbia Rivers in Oregon and Washington, transporting paper products. That experiences brought me in contact with rope of many kinds, most of which was of the three lay variety.

While I worked for Western Transportation, I became a Master Shipwright and held this position until I quit Western to go fishing in Alaska, a life long dream, where I made Sitka my home.

During the next 9 years I longline-fished in Southeast Alaska for halibut, black cod and rock fish. The rigorous conditions of Alaska fishing place high demands on longline gear beyond normal duty requirements. Our lives and our livelihood, as fishermen depended on the quality of the equipment that we work with, line included.

The quality of the line I worked with was not what I felt it should be. This, as well as poor sales and service, prompted me to quit fishing, and open a fishing supply retail store which specializes in braided line.

Thus WELLS FISHING, INC. was launched. I have spliced bridles, tow straps, tow lines, and a myriad of other items too numerous to mention here.

I have provided quality line to many of the top fishers in Southeast Alaska since 1992. Our customers like the product that comes from our braiding machines, because we make it the way they want it.

If this article has led you to believe all we produce is ground line and gangion for fishing, think again. The braided products we produce can be used for thousands of applications from parachute cord to shoe laces. Just look around and you'll see where it is in use throughout the average home.  

If you have any questions, or would like a quote for design on a special rope, twine, or gangion, just e-mail or call 907-747-3686. If it's a braided product, we can make anything that comes in a fiber strand form from Kevlar to Mona Filament to Nylon to Cotton.