I don't remember that, but I was pretty young then and only recall bits and pieces of going there. A place I remember much better, because I drove there myself when I got my license, was Reed Tackle. I think I still have a few cards of Chenille with their name on it.

I recently picked up a mint condition Cortland Rimfly reel for $10 at an antique store. Made in England. No box/manual. An "M" sticker on the reel seat. Means medium, perhaps? The reel is about the size on my old 1494 1/2 Medalist. Anyone familiar with this reel and the line weight range I...

I have fond memories of Fred and Pete arguing who was a worse driver around the time Fred started chauffeuring him around. I was given a small metal cylinder containing some of Fred's ashes by his kids at his memorial service. We were told to either keep it or scatter them somewhere we spent...

Indeed! Beside fishing tackle, I still have a Colt Detective Special and an Ithaca 37 I bought there. I peddled my bike from Paterson to their Hawthorne store when they moved there, but my grandfather brought me as a younger kid to the Paterson store downtown. He knew the old man. They had a...

Thank you sir. May have some questions as I catch up. Feel a little like Rip Van Winkle. My home stream and the one I caught my first trout on a fly in is now under the Monksville Reservoir. My Fenwick glass rod and Medalist reel (both from Paterson Rod & Gun) seem a little dated. I picked up a...

Yeppers. Hoping to put my papers in soon and be out before year's end.

I monitored GST now and then for years, not signing up because I moved to South Jersey some time ago and shifted to saltwater. Approaching retirement, I'm gearing back up for trout and registered for that site about a week ago. After a few days of waiting for approval I started seeing the "site...

I started out with a kit, and a cheap kit at that. I eventually replaced virtually every part of it, from the vise, to the tools, to the materials. But I was able to tie flies with it and my enthusiasm kept up enough to move on to better tools and materials. There are much better kits out there...

There are pretty much only two possibilities when a tuber drifts into a wading angler. Either he has little or no control over his drift, which is quite likely since tubers tend to be less experienced and capable on the water than paddlers, especially if they are the NYC folks who Stonefly...

After cutting my fly fishing teeth on the streams of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com</st1:City>Passaic and <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Sussex</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Counties</st1:PlaceType> in my youth, I never could get into trout fishing the Toms...

I learned about the trout potential of the Toms soon after I moved down here and tried it a few times but the water was so foreign to me compared to what I was used to that I couldn't get into it. I also had a whole new world of saltwater available to me so that's where I wet my lines when...

Thanks for the replies and welcomes! As for how I found this place, I was just web searching a few of the local streams and came up with this site a few times! I've not been a member of any other flyfishing forums. I actually just got back from Bloomingdale tonight, but had no time to go...

Hi all! Newbie here. I spent my first 25 years in Paterson (Ok, I slept there. Waking hours were spent in school, working or fishing far from home!) I got into flyfishing shortly before moving to Ocean County in the mid-80s. Most of my wife's family is still up north so I do spend the stray...