Big Dale wrote:

I am sorry to hear about that shop closing. While I was living in Abilene in
the early 80's I used to drive down to The Austin Angler to buy tying suplies.
Long way to drive, but it was worth it then. The first time I me Jack Hemingway
was in that shop. I took my first fly tying classes from Jim Freres when he was
teaching in that shop in the later part of the 80's. I had not been in the shop
for several years, and understood that it had been going downhill.I miss the
shops that have the kind of feel that that shop had.

It was certainly unique in this whole area, and that's what makes me
saddest of all.

Jim Freres ... now there's a name I hadn't heard for a while. I'm
pretty sure he was the one who showed me to tie the Whitlock eel
streamer way back when. Mina's boyfriend (Jim Adams?) also gave me a
lot of advice over the years.


Chuck Vance