STRATFORD -- Before he became general manager of ZeeBaaS, a fishing reel manufacturer based in Stratford, Ron DiCostanzo worked as a software integration tester in Shelton. Then the company outsourced ...

THE REEL ARRIVED in a handcrafted wooden box with a shiny silver Z screwed to the top. Inside, the ZX2’s body was cradled in a custom compartment, the detached handle secured in its own nook by a ...