It wasn't me but I remember going into two shops that had fly gear about that time. Maybe even a little longer than that?
One shop was at the corner of Howe Ave. and Marconi and later changed to a ski shop.
The other shop I remember very well was on Arden across from THirfty and the old White Front store. I think it was called "Sports" something ?
I started fly fishing with my dad a little earlier than that on the American up near what is the Sunrise bridge now. Later, when I was old enough to get a Honda Trailbike I was all over the American and eventually did go to Sac State too.
My first semester at Sac State I cut classes a lot to go fish at Paridise Beach and got put on academic probation. Viet Nam was in full swing then and it was either that or stay in school. I stayed in school.
Fishing for me then was for shad and trout (probably smolt) and an occasional striper too. Later as I got older and more serious about fishing steelhead, and salmon became the fish of choice, with a few stripers in the mix too.
Geez, the American was a great river to grow up around.
Tony
TONY BUZOLICH
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Yuba City, CA.
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