Fly shop coming together
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Hey Split shot!
It was very gratifying indeed. I went through five other guys before I hooked up with Tim. And it wasn’t long before he made all my worries go away. He has a great story that goes with him as well. He started out his career as a fish biologist and was flying around one day with a carpenter friend of mine in a piper cub tracking bull trout. He started asking a lot of questions about wood working especially what it takes to make furniture type items. My friend the carpenter told him he should get a copy of fine wood working magazine and read it to get more ideas. Well to make a long story short he went out and bought every issue of fine wood working magazine and read them all from cover to cover. Now he is featured in fine wood working magazine. I thought that was a great story.
I have made contact with the Boo boys. Their company is called Sweetgrass fly rods. Very nice stuff, but a two year wait to get something. I also got Wintstons side of the story on why the Boo Boys left. Now I don’t know what to believe.
As far as carrying Thomas and Thomas and Abel in the shop goes…only if they demand it. I will be carrying Winston and Sage for rods and Ross and Tibor for reels. I have all of these and like them and more importantly know them. The nice thing about most of my clientele so far is that they are really nice people and they trust me and my opinion. I can honestly say I have only come across maybe two snobs in the year that I have worked there. That’s what makes the place a great place to work! Well that and the tips. 😉
JT
Dog,
Thanks for responding to my question – glad to hear about the groundskeeper’s efforts to use enviro-friendly stuff. Sounds like a company with some integrity.
Best of luck,
BB
😉 Beautiful job and very impressive. Is thw wood a dark grained wood or has stain added to it. Thanks, and good luck. S.D. 🙂
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