Anybody heard any rumors that they are under Chapter 11? The local one here is not restocking some merchandise. Also, they have allot of items on sale with the caveat, no refunds or exchanges on sale items.
Fact is quite different… A Canadian feed company just bought them and is promising to redo the distribution system. That is the kink we are seeing right now in their supply train.
Hap
the UFA is not really a feed company… it is a farm supply company, farm suppy and hardware, and oil and gas delivery and pumps… much more then just feed…and they just bought Wholesale sports and Sportsmans Warehouse, they also have work cloths…
It is Alberta based so is in a strong company from the richest and best province in the whole country…
you are in good hands man…
Good. Maybe we will get ours back. They opened in Victorville, CA last spring and closed the doors just 4 months later. Gave good deals to our local FF club. Was sorry to see them go. Jim
I was at the one nearest to me over the weekend, it seemed well stocked if not top heavy with camouflaged everything and lightly keeled with anything remotely fly friendly. But then it’s sort of the season for duds like those and folks around here aren’t spending much on toys these days, so ( ? )…
I did see a few ( few indeed ) sale items, but didn’t happen to note any " no return " tags and something like that, had it been readily apparent would’ve stuck out to me.
Now Crispy Creme stores on the other hand - dropping like flies !
Dave
My brother founded the Sportsmans Warehouse. He sold out some time back but retained the building the Sportsmans occupies in SLC. Scott confirmed that that his renters are indeed undergoing a change in ownership.
Tim
Cool:
Fishing supplies and feed corn under one roof.
Your brother…that is cool. I have always been a Patron to the SW. But what happened several years ago, did someone else buy it, because all of a sudden they were open on Sunday.
I think the one here is doomed. Bass Pro is opening a store, just down the highway, sometime next year.
I don’t know, Cabela’s opened here (just a few miles down the highway) a few years back. Sportsmen’s lost a little the first year, but now everyone I know is back. Now I hear, the Cabela’s here might be in trouble.
I agree with fly goddess we had a cabela’s open here and all of a sudden we have 2 sportsman warehouse’s. I myself would rather shop at sportman’s they seem to know what they are doing and have a decent price for good materials.
Our fly fishing club has been asked to help the local store out in determining what they need to order for fly fishering materials. They have also asked us to do classes and demonstrations of fly tying and casting. This is a whole new strategy for these guys and we are welcoming it. At least now we have a place to go tie flies.
They also indicated they had been bought out and the new owner was asking them to do these things.
iaflyfisher
Our local Sportsman’s Warehouse has a fly fishing/tying club that VEE and I are members of. One meeting a month, sort of a tying coffee clatch thing, with a “dinner for a dollar” meal, also raffles for FF gear. All the money from the dinners and raffles goes to getting equipmenet to the guys in the Bagdahd Fly Fishers and to Project Healing Waters. We just voted last night to buy 15 vises for the local PHW chapter.
There are tying classes offered twice a month, free to anyone who wants to attend, all tools and materials are free to those attending the class. I usually pitch in and teach a class a month. Lots of fun.
Across the freeway there is a Cabelas. Not really impressed with their fly shop section. Very little in the way of materials for tying or gear. We are looking at one of their boats though.
I think that stores like these, while ‘national chains’ often carry different things and have different foci depending on where they are located and what the management on site deems ‘profitable’ for their store.
I know that the SW here in Tucson has more tying materials, as well as flies and tackle, than any of the ‘fly shops’ I’ve been into. But, as with any store, they certainly don’t carry everything.
Both of the closest ‘big’ stores, Cabela’s and Bass Pro, are in the Phoenix area, and so a bit of a drive. I get up only occasionally. However, both have well stocked and staffed fly fishing ‘shops’ laid out as a separate ‘shop’ within the larger stores. Again, both cary more as far as volume and variety, than any fly shop I’ve ver been in. Still, they don’t have it all…no one does.
In any event, my take on such stores might be a bit skewed (like everything else I have a ‘take’ on). I don’t buy rods or flies from stores, so when I go into them I’m looking for materials and maybe lines or a good deal (read ‘really cheap’) on reels (I have all the reels I ‘need’ so if it’s not ‘Oh my! THATS almost free!!!’, I won’t buy it).
(following is ‘rumor only’, but still fun)…
I got this 'second hand, maybe third. I heard last night of what might have been a big ‘oops’ at the local Cabela’s in Glendale a few months ago. Since Cabela’s now handles Sage rods, they apparently have a few there. When going through what they call in the business a ‘stale merchandise’ markdown, somone put a handful of Sage rods into the 70% off bin…heard they went really quick…maybe four or five of them went out before the error was discovered. Computer error… the machine didn’t know that just because they weren’t selling a lot of these rods, they still weren’t eligible for markdowns.
Buddy
Our local SW has been a “good citizen” to our FF club and carries a lot of tying and fishing supplies, books, gear, etc. Hope they stay open. We don’t really have a fly shop as such very close, so they fill the bill.
That’s great news, Dale! 
Considering that “matching the hatch” locally generally means shad, baitfish/baby sunfish & crayfish patterns, as well as some insect patterns, they should beef up their offerings for tying those kinds of flies.
Here’s some materials I’d like to see them stock:
-Gamakasu SC15 hooks in sizes 8-2/0
-Rusty orange hackle
-Lead wire
-Wider selection of colors of chenille.
-Rio fly lines (maybe they have these? I don’t think I’ve seen them).
-A selection of 10’-15’ sink tip fly lines.
-Wider selection of large arbor fly reels.
-Angel hair and Diamond Hair
-Nymph Skin and Bug Skin
-Wool thread
-EP Fibers
Fly Goddess: Scott sold the store a few years back - - - like maybe 13 or 14 years ago (time flies when you grow old) so I can’t answer your question. Sorry for the delay in responding I didn’t notice your post.
Tim
I really like the SW here in Sioux Falls. They have a good selection of tying materials. Also they give a military discount. Great folks to do business with. I also buy my firearms and ammunition from them if possible.