ABOUT Us

My name is Tim Waters. I fell in love with the Wolf River as a young boy. I cut my teeth with a fly rod on the river 25 years ago. I wore out two pairs of waders a year for over twenty years on the Wolf. When we built the “Bunk House” off the pole building in Hollister, the old man would say, “This will be your fly shop some day.” I laughed at the time, but it was always in the back of my mind. I stayed in that bunk house whenever I fished the Wolf. When Mike at Mike’s Service in Langlade, which carried flies, told me he was closing, I knew there would be no place to get flies in the Wolf River area. I was putting the book together at the time, but I thought “Why Not?” I’ve spent the last 36 years working shift work in the mills. My children are grown and gone. So I just did it! I opened the Wolf River Fly Shop on April 19th, 2024 at N6530 Highway 55, Hollister, Wisconsin. I started slow, as I had no clue what I was doing. I discovered that I love it! I met so many cool people this year! I will be going full time this coming spring, starting April 18th, 2025, and I can’t wait!