Monday, May 19, 2014 at 12:00AM 
Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, Jim Murphy former President of Hardy North America is launching a new fishing tackle company.
Prior to Hardy, Murphy worked at Thomas and Thomas before founding the Redington Fly Company, the Albright Tackle Company and the Landing Creek OEM Company.
LINK (via:Angling International)
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 12:00AM 
The origin tale of Dick Cabela, who founded the outdoor-goods chain Cabela’s, and who died recently, at the age of seventy-seven, begins with fishing flies. In 1961, according to company lore, Cabela bought forty-five dollars’ worth of hand-tied lures to sell at his family’s furniture store, in Nebraska. Customers weren’t interested, so Cabela bought an ad in the magazine Sports Afield, offering five flies in exchange for twenty-five cents in postage. When people wrote in to redeem the offer, he put their names on a mailing list, which he blasted with three-page-long catalogues of fishing gear.
The growth of Cabela’s reflects Americans’ odd relationship with the outdoors: we mythologize it even as we pave it over.
LINK (via: The New Yorker)
cabela's, fly fishing business in Business Wednesday, April 23, 2014 at 12:03AM 
When was the last time your local specialty retailer received a government handout?
An exhaustive investigation conducted by the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity found that Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's together have received or been promised more than $2.2 billion from American taxpayers over the past 15 years.
LINK (via:The Atlantic Cities)
