Where the Staff Have No Names

And we thought that the reason why fly shops shorten their hours and fewer reports appear in the fall is that fishing has slowed. No, it’s because the staff is finally getting their yah-yahs out

— during the best fishing of the year. “You might have noticed that most fly shops have let the fishing reports on their Web sites slide into disrepair. With few exceptions, the reports are stuck in time: It’s July or April. We should take a clue from the shop owners and fishing guides, who are all out fishing.” Ed Dentry on fall Rocky Mountain trout fishing in the Denver Post

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