"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Doug Kanter wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Doug Kanter wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Dicks.

Galyans is a first-class sporting goods operation, with wide
selections
of fishing, hunting, boating and outdoor gear of all kinds. The
chain
sold out to Dicks, which is a couple of steps up from Wal-Mart.

And the devolution continues...



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affordable, and their curriculums don't get stuck. In other words,
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evolved over time." —George W. Bush, Niceville, Fla., Aug. 10, 2004

Try Gander Mountain, if you have one nearby. If they continue
growing,
they'll bury Dick's and everyone else. Great store.



I get most of my fishing gear locally, from small shops, but I buy
sports clothing at places like Galyans and Bass Pro Shops. We have a
Bass Pro about 50 miles from here, just south of Baltimore. It's always
worth the trip. Bass Pro has great in-store clothing sales.

The first Bass Pro catalog I saw had (among a million other things)
plain
cotton vests for guys who needed a place to wear all their fishing
patches.
It showed a guy in one of these vests covered with patches from Zebco,
Penn,
Mister Twister, etc. You've gotta have one serious identity problem to
want
to be covered with manufacturers' patches, although I guess it's not
much
different than people who walk around in t-shirts with "Tommy Hilfiger"
in
5" high lettering, or Yves St Laurent purses.

Good catalog, though. :-)



My "fishing" dress consists of clothes far too raggy to wear doing
anything else, except, perhaps, cleaning out the mower deck on my little
tractor. Old, ripped tee-shirts, frayed shorts, three-season-old
sandals, et cetera. Except, of course, when I'm fly-fishing in fresh
water...then I dress up.

No Harry...don't do it - no dressing up just because there might be some
Trout Unlimited fellows on the stream!