I feel your pain Ron, we lost our local shop and now I have to drive for an hour there and an hour back to get anything flyfishing related.

I hope he gets a responsible job at Cabelas so his expertise is not lost.

By the way, I assume that the Cabela's you are referring to is the new Post Falls store. Do you know how it is coming along? Info from the cabelas website is sketchy and at least 8 months old. I am hoping that it will be open by the time I drive by post falls on my way to the Idaho FI.