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Simms was founded in 1980 by John Simms, a Jackson, Wyoming fishing guide and outfitter. John Simms established the company to manufacture a higher quality of waders and wading equipment than was available at the time. In the mid-1980s, John Simms introduced high quality neoprene waders to the U.S. market. John Simms later sold the company to ...
Dan Bailey's Fly Shop, Livingston, Montana (2008) Bud Lilly's Trout Shop, West Yellowstone, Montana (2007) Charles Brooks was a trout fishing technician whose works Larger Trout for the Western Fly Fisherman (1970) , The Trout and the Stream (1974) and Nymph Fishing for Larger Trout (1976) were largely based on research and fishing experiences ...
Donald S. Martinez (1903-1955), was an American commercial fly tier, fly shop owner and fly angler. He is most noted for his development and promotion of the woolly worm fly and dry fly fishing in the Yellowstone National Park region. He operated a seasonal fly shop in West Yellowstone, Montana during the summers of 1932-1943. Pat Barnes bought ...
Dan Bailey (March 22, 1904 – May 24, 1982) was a fly-shop owner, innovative fly developer and staunch Western conservationist. Born on a farm near Russellville, Kentucky, Bailey is best known for the fly shop he established in Livingston, Montana in 1938.
Superior fly fishing also exists in the surrounding areas of the Rocky Mountains in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. Because of a large number of major river systems such as the Yellowstone, Madison, Missouri, Snake, Salmon, and Clark Fork, many hundreds of fast, clear-running streams and high alpine lakes, the region contains a large number of trout.
While in West Yellowstone, he had heard of a tackle shop for sale. In 1952, Lilly purchased the shop and "Bud Lilly's Fly Shop" was born. [4] The shop gathered information about local fishing conditions, provided a space for fishermen to congregate, and offered fly fishing services and items like tackle and flies. [4]