Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Urban Angler in Alexandria to Close January 30 (with Clearance Sale)

I'll echo that this is obviously very sad to see. I need to drop in and buy a bunch of urban hats so we don't run out.  Beth had her's on earlier, as always -- 

Gene

On Friday, January 15, 2016 at 5:59:48 PM UTC-5, Richard Farino wrote:

Thanks for all the kind words, guys.  We really appreciate it.

I wont go into the multitudes of reasons why things just didn't work out…  internet sales, all of our major manufacturers going direct to consumer, having our shop handicapped by refusing to let us run travel or in-house guiding, high rent, no marketing or advertising, etc…  the bottom line is sales kept declining because people just weren't coming in or spending much anymore.  We tried to make it work.  We were just losing too much money.  NY had to pull out.

We're all still staying in the area.  We'll all still be here, making it to the beer ties, and I'm hosting the F3T film tour this year personally – March 23rd.  Will update the group with details later.

I'm also working on building a new shop in the northern VA area.  It takes way too much money to do this, so if anyone has a few hundred thousand dollars laying around and you want to be the proud owner of northern VA's premier fly fishing shop, please shoot me an e-mail   ;)

See you guys at the next beer tie.

R

Richard Farino

Urban Angler VA | 108 N. Washington Street  2nd Floor | Alexandria, VA 22314 

(703) 527-2524 | fax: (703) 527-3313 | richard@urbanangler.com    

From: Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders <tidal-potoma...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Yambag Nelson <northstreet...@gmail.com>
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Date: Friday, January 15, 2016 at 3:03 PM
To: Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders <tidal-potoma...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Urban Angler in Alexandria to Close January 30 (with Clearance Sale)

In addition to the internet, I imagine that the vast improvements in mid-range gear arent't helping much.  15-20 years ago I wouldn't think of buying anything other than a Sage because they were by far the best rods out there (along with T&T and Winston).  Even though I have way more disposable income now, my last few rods have been TFO, Echo, and Beulah simply because there isn't much dropoff from the top rods which would have been more than double the cost.  I am sure the shops I bought those from made way less from me then if I would have shelled out $800+ for Sage, T&T etc. 

On Friday, January 15, 2016 at 1:31:54 PM UTC-5, HeaveToo wrote:

I really hate hearing this.  It is a sad reality that the local fly shop is becoming an extinct notion.  I knew the owner of a local fly shop in Culpeper and he was a great guy.  It was his dream to start a fly shop.  He worked hard at making the dream the reality and he ran a nice shop.  I helped him some and guided with him a few times.  It was really painful to watch the shop close. 

I wish Urban Angler the best.  It is so hard to compete with the internet guys who have little overhead since some of them don't even have brick and mortar stores.  Eventually it will be hard to find a local shop to walk into and see what local fly patterns are there.  We will be using some copied fly pattern that was tied in some foreign country.  I was told that this was the fate of Walt's Poppers too.

Sorry to hear this news. 

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