| Get your gears cranking. Take out those 10 feet | | | | Personalized guides are what made fishing trips so |
| rods and some of your finest lures, because | | | | much worthwhile. Are there starter lessons and |
| we're going for salmon fishing over at Ausable | | | | competency checks before starting out? Check |
| River, among the few spots where trout and | | | | Are there discussion and lessons during lunch? |
| salmon fishing is at its best. | | | | Check. Are tutorials made during first time |
| Accurately, so few fishing hotspots can rival | | | | casting? Check. Do guides wade with you? Check. |
| Ausable River for year round trout and salmon | | | | Do guys at Adirondack Sports Shop do all these? |
| fishing. It's as if the presence of the Great Lakes | | | | Check on them about these. |
| nearby can already be taken for granted. So are | | | | Ausable River Sports Shop |
| you ready for an Ausable River Salmon Fishing | | | | PO Box 448 Wilmington NY 12997-0448 |
| Trip? | | | | Contact: (518) 946-1250 |
| Adirondack Sport Shop | | | | John was an angler out of proportion. He caught |
| P.O. Box 125, Wilmington, NY 12997 | | | | trophies in New York, Pennsylvania, Montana, |
| Contact: (518) 946-2605 | | | | Utah, Idaho, Canada, New Zealand, Chile, Australia |
| Adirondack Sport Shop is indeed home of the | | | | and Europe. He also angled with the best game on |
| best Ausable River Salmon Fishing because Mr. | | | | Maine and Florida. John squared with them all: |
| Fran Betters, a fishing veteran for over 50 years | | | | Barracuda, Tarpon, Permit, Salmon and Trout. |
| oversee its operation. It's not just about Fran | | | | Now, Ausable River Sports Shop has caught John. |
| Betters' expertise, it's also about Betters' inherent | | | | At Ausable River Sports Shop, he offers guide |
| feel about this business. Adirondack Sports Shop | | | | services and makes sure that you won't destroy |
| don't show you how they catch fish, they ensure | | | | his reputation by teaching you the ins and outs of |
| you catch your own fish. Imparting skill is an | | | | Ausable River salmon fishing. |
| expertise aside from fishing that Fran Betters and | | | | Another angler out of proportion is Tony. Of equal |
| his team of four professional fishing guides knows | | | | fishing streak, Tony spent the last 50 years fly |
| so well. | | | | fishing from Maine to North Carolina and even as |
| Adirondack Sport Shop offers just about any kind | | | | far as Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. Those |
| of licensed guide service. Preferring the wade and | | | | games he pursued were Bass, Pikes, Panfishes, |
| fly fish trip? That would make Fran Betters smile; | | | | and Carps. Now that he is an Ausable River |
| it is an expertise he mastered years ago. Nothing | | | | Salmon Fishing Guide, he is ready to share his |
| duplicates the challenge and the atmosphere of fly | | | | knowledge of his 50 years of experience to |
| fishing on the banks. Wading trips are so much of | | | | novice and intermediate anglers. Tony, with his |
| a specialty of Fran Betters and his team of four | | | | fondness of fly fishing, is a certified master of |
| professional fishing guides; in fact it's what the | | | | tying flies, casting, wading and baiting fishes with |
| guys over Adirondack Sport Shop promote. | | | | flies. |