We can support our local flyshops by purchacing our equipment and materials from them. If they don't have what we want, suggest they might special order it. If they have classes, take one, or maybe teach one. Recommend the shop to our friends.
What turns us (me) away from any flyshop is the know all, seen all, be all, attitude of some owners and staff.
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Trouts don't live in ugly places
Trouts don't live in ugly places.
A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.
Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.