First fish with my D Fuller "Old Reliable"

[Dean Romig]

Not to hi-jack Richard's thread, but....

I was in Bill's fly shop in New Boston, NH (oddly, just east of Francestown) only once... never again. He was probably all you say he was but not one thing in his shop had a price tag on it... that's my clue not to shop there. There were enough windows in that store however, to be able to see what make of vehicle a customer arrived in

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Not to hi-jack Richard's thread, but....

I was in Bill's fly shop in New Boston, NH (oddly, just east of Francestown) only once... never again. He was probably all you say he was but not one thing in his shop had a price tag on it... that's my clue not to shop there. There were enough windows in that store however, to be able to see what make of vehicle a customer arrived in

The goodies in his store were "eye-candy" 90% of his business was catalog. I met him about 16-17 years ago, in March- I was in the Detroit area visiting an USMC buddy for the week-end and we went to the big Southfield Fly Fishing Expo- Tom and I helped him carry in his display items and watched his table for him- we met in the parking lot- he had a flat tire and his spare was "kaputt" so we got out the spare compressor and got him "road-worthy" He probably had more Bogdan reels worth more than our first house in his trunk-after he got back home he put me on his catalog mailing list (pre- Al Goer-ian Internet days) and sent me a used LH wind 3 & 1/8" dia size Hardy perfect with case and lined with a 4/5 Wulff TT line and backing and 6 hand tied flies as a "thank you"-- I still have the reel and all his back issue catalogues, ditto those from friend Marty Keane- Bill was probably the most knowlegable salmon fisherman of his era, Art Wheaton has one of those flies Bill sent me