Like a lot of the world the last 3 weeks of the olympics basically took over the evening festivities at my house. We got on a great schedule of Olympics, dinner during the local news, and back to the olympics after a sweet round of Wheel of Fortune.
While browsing The Drake's blog, I noticed a story about a fly shop called "Whistler Fly Fishing." Now unless you have been under a rock for the last month the word "Whistler" should ring a bell....it is the town that hosted bobsled, most of the alpine, luge, and of course the medals plazza. Turns out this little skiing town in the mountains has a fly shop and I HAD to have a sticker as they have an insanely cool logo. So I went to the site...a very cool site, found the stickers and started to buy some...turns out you can't exactly buy online and something that I thought was cool was this little quote on the checkout page.
"We are considering the addition of a shopping cart feature in the near future but currently enjoy getting the chance to meet each of our customers over the phone."
So I bit, and decided to call the shop myself. The guy that answered the phone was without a doubt a young, very cool and helpful guy. The beginning of the conversation went something like this:
Me: Yeah, I saw the story about your shop on The Drake's Blog and I HAVE to have one of your stickers for my drift boat.
Young Shop Employee: Dude, we are in the Drake?
Me: Well, it's really the blog but still very cool...they interviewed the owner--you didn't know?
Young Shop Employee: Dude, I have been fishing for the last seven days (then pulling the phone away from his face and obviously yelling at the other young, cool guys in the shop) Why didn't anyone tell me we are in The Drake?!?! Right on man, lets get you some stickers for your boat!
Instantly I wanted to fish with the guy and anyone else in that shop.
He even sent a couple of stickers for my boys.
Check out their site at www.whistlerflyfishing.com and the story here
I can back up your experience. I was out there skiing 3 years ago and just had to go into the shop with the bad ass metal steelhead sign. Pretty sure it was the shop you're talking about. I ended up not having quite enough funds to sneak in a bull trout trip while I was there. But suffice to say, if I go back to Whistler I am going to fish with these guys. Difficult decisions... to ski or to fish. Everyone was super friendly and loved to talk fishing. Whistler pretty much has it all, you can ski in July or fish in December. Can't beat that.
I will be fishing with this shop for three days next week for steelhead. I will let you know how it goes. Can't wait to get there!
nice and thanks.