The Meteoric Rise and Fall of a Denver Fly Shop

For years, Trouts Fly Fishing was in every single place on social media—producing beautiful Youtube movies on flies and methods, usually posting to Fb and Instagram—after which it simply disappeared. A captivating story in Fly Fisherman by Andrew Becker options interviews with a number of of the gamers on this story and particulars the way it all went mistaken.

For a lot of the final twenty years, Tucker Ladd and his Trouts Fly Fishing of Denver, Colorado—a fly store, on-line marketer, and angling clothes shop—sat atop the angling world. . . . After which, in October 2023, Trouts got here crashing down. The Colorado Division of Income slapped a seizure discover on the door of the corporate’s 4,800-square-foot constructing—basically shuttering the enterprise—for failure to pay greater than $67,000 in taxes, in line with state data and information experiences. Information confirmed that, simply two years earlier than, an organization linked to Ladd’s father bought the property for $1.8 million.

Read the full story in Fly Fisherman