The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

I have only been in one Orvis store. My friends and I would get together for a week vacation in Tahoe every year and we'd stop into the Tahoe City store (upstairs). We always wanted to find out where and what they were hitting on and made it a requirement to purchase something for a thank you. Generally I would try to buy some tying materials for flies (even found a few items I couldn't find near home) and my friends would always get some stuff too. Sometimes maybe just a shirt or two.

We always seemed to leave with a bad feeling from the service and untactful remarks we would get from the employees, every time. Granted, we have only been fly fishing for about ten years, but they talked to us and treated us like we didn't know what a trout was and what were we doing on the water anyway if we needed to ask questions! Needless to say, we quit going back there and a couple years ago I decided to drop by to see if they had an attitude adjustment. Hmmmmm......store was gone. No surprise though and I didn't miss them.

One of my friends said he had a similar experience at another Orvis store. Haven't been back to an Orvis store since. I felt I didn't need the aggravation for the prices they were selling for.

Beerfly