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The Meteoric Rise and Fall of a Denver Fly Shop

Tucker Ladd and Trouts Fly Fishing flew too close to the sun and "broke off" one of the most successful fly shops in the world.

The Meteoric Rise and Fall of a Denver Fly Shop
Two years after buying the fly shop business from former owner Jim Park, Tucker Ladd moved the business to this location at 1303 E 6th Avenue, in the Cherry Creek neighborhood just a few blocks from the Denver Country Club.

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This article was originally titled "When Icarus Went Fly Fishing," from the June-July 2025 issue of Fly Fisherman. 


[Over the course of six months author Andrew Becker conducted more than 40 interviews to find out what happened to one of Denver’s most visible and prominent fly shops. The Editor.]

For much of the last two decades, Tucker Ladd and his Trouts Fly Fishing of Denver...

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