I'm sure there are some shops in London that are so exclusive you need a referal to get in the door.
Might be kind of fun running around looking for one.
Eric
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I'm sure there are some shops in London that are so exclusive you need a referal to get in the door.
Might be kind of fun running around looking for one.
Eric
If I ever win a big lottery jackpot, I'll open and run a completely stocked fly shop until I go broke.
Would be fun to do for the couple of years that 37 milliion would last.
Buddy
They are all closed and out of business; the good ones that is.
I don't really think it is possible. Like others said, To hard to keep everything in stock.
Bass Pro Shops??? :? :?
Bob Marriotts as already mentioned may be the closest to an all inclusive shop. They do cater to the less well heeled too. Their print catalogs used to run a couple of hundred 8x11" pages though the current print catalogs now only have a subset of their offerings. They carry just about every major rod and reel brand commonly found in the U.S. and have a fly tying materials section larger than most other entire fly shops that I have visited. Yet they don't have everything either. Not much from small rod companies or the really high end low volume reel companies and so on. Not every conceivable fly tying material or vise and so on. They claim to be the largest single source of fly fishing items in world with more than 37000 inventory items.
I dunno about high end...Any one that carries Simms or Patagonia or Orvis is high end....Did I say Simms? Cabela's has them now...but at least they don't hold their noses in the air like a couple of the fly shops that I have visited in Colorado.
Granted they did wait on me and I did buy some flies from them, but conversation was out since I wasn't ready to book a trip or buy $1000 bucks worth of gear.
I'm not a big spender. Never have been, but I DO like conversation. AND, the fly shops at the time that I visited were NOT busy.
Bob S.
whenever im in northern california i visit "the fly shop" in redding. they have anything you would need and then some. a big plus is meeting mike mercer one of the best tiers and authors around. they are a friendly staff.everytime i order online i get an email and a phone call. cant beat that! they treat everyone with respect.i live in mississippi and i have never gotten as good of treatment here.
Wow! What a response on a bit of day dreaming. Bob Marriot's and "The Fly Shop" in California sound like quite the places. Jetting off to N.Z. for an afternoon shopping trip strikes just the note of self obsessed over-indulgence to appeal to my more reptilian side though, so The Compleat Angler it is! In reality a piece of land on an excellent smallmouth stream somewhere to build the family homestead would be more my speed. I know from my guitar playing days that I suffer from a bad case of "off-the-shelfitis", so I likely wouldn't need any more temptation than a local shop to drain the bank account. Nice to dream about though! I'll let you guys know how it went when I get back from New Zealand this weekend. :D :D
EDIT/ Sorry Gringo I don't know how I got N.Z. in my head. I mean no offense. I mean Austrialia of course. :shock: /EDIT
BTW, I consider Marriotts and The Fly Shop both to be 'home' shops. For many years I got up to Redding 2-3 times a year and had to drive through Fullerton where Marriotts is located on the way north. I have spent quite a bit at both stores. If I couldn't get something from my local shop those two were my fall backs. Marriotts is much larger than The Fly Shop.
I like the idea of traveling around and visiting shops in other lands.