Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => Fly Fishing Cafe => Topic started by: Fly Chucker on September 07, 2012, 08:14:16 PM
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Where in the lower mainland has the biggest selection of BIG flies (ie Intruder, leeches, etc)?
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M&Y is where I buy most of my flies and material.
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Where is that?
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Micheal and Young is on east whalley ring road just north of 104 ave in Surrey and they have a store on broadway in Van just east of cambie?? I think? I like their whalley store better myself.
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Actually it's west of Cambie
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Wholesale Sports has a large selection. Good prices too.
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Wholesale has a pretty good selection of flies but in terms of intruder style flies there's not much going on in that department.
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only stores i can think of would be M&Y, Pacific Angler, Riverside......basically the fishing exclusive shops. big box stores will only have the flies they can order overseas and lets face it Intruders take time to tie (up to an hour each) so they can only get your basic type ones like the Hobo spey, Pick yer pockets and a few other styles. I know that M&Y and Pacific Angler buy from local (ish) tiers because the demand is there but these flies will run you like $5-$9 per fly and even up :o
OR you can take up tying and the many hours it takes to learn techniques and such, all the money for materials and then tie your own. Do you save much money in the long run............probably not but us that tie flies like to think we do ;) plus its really enjoyable to catch fish on something you tied especially when you create/customize your own patterns
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Could also check Sea-Run in Coquitlam, and Fred's in Chilliwack has ok selection too.
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Sea Run has a massive selection of flies. Not sure about the quality as I've never bought flies from them.
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Found a place online that u can order from www.flyfishusa.com (http://www.flyfishusa.com). Pretty decent prices.
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Thanks guys for all your info!
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dont forget there is now a Fred's in Abbotsford now too
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Fred's