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Little South Fork LLC is Ken Sample and Dan Fink, plus our fishin' dogs Daffy and Kodiak. We're all trout bums. Ken's background is in crafting fine furniture and artistic wood carvings, Dan's is in writing, photography and computer wizardry.

During the long, cold winter of 2005-2006, we did what all trout bums do when the home waters are frozen solid--we tied flies. And we noticed something! Most of the fly-tying desks available on the market are mass-produced out of cheap particle board and plastic, and have styling that can be at best called 'industrial.' They were something to stash away in the basement, not something beautiful that you could display in your living room and be proud of. And so Little South Fork LLC was born, along with a line of one-of-a-kind, hand-made fly tying desks constructed from the finest and most beautiful solid woods. Ken has since come up with matching feather chests and matching rod holders, some desks of different sizes, and a large fly sorting and storage table suitable for fly shops or dedicated enthusiasts.

Ken and the woodworking shop are now located in Elk, Washington, in the beautiful Spokane Valley. Dan is still located high in the mountains of Northern Colorado.

The "Little South Fork" is a remote, peaceful and little-known tributary of Northern Colorado's famous Poudre River, and it's our home waters--only 10 minutes away, over the pass. We also live right on a tremendously fun little brook trout stream, but in recent years drought conditions have seriously hurt the brookie population here, so we haven't fished it in 2006.

The little south fork of the Cache la Poudre starts in Rocky Mountain National Park, then winds down the tundra and through Colorado State University's Pingree Park Campus. Fishing is absolutely forbidden in these headwaters! Why? Because, by 1937, the native Greenback Cutthroat trout that once populated all of the Eastern slope of the front range was considered extinct. Two tiny populations were then found in Colorado by biologists, and one of these populations...was right there on the headwaters of our home waters! The rest is history and hard work by the Colorado Division of Wildlife, and in 1978 the Greenback Cutt was downlisted from Endangered to Threatened. Recovery efforts are happening all over our area, and other small tributaries of the little south fork are closed to fishing too because of the greenbacks. Though you can't fish from Pingree Park on up, it's still a blast to hike the rugged canyon and toss grasshoppers to the hungry cutts.

Below Pingree Park, the Little South is open to fishing to where it meets the main fork of the Poudre. With the exception of a short stretch that flows near the dirt road, access is extremely rugged and difficult to find--plan on long hikes with no trail in downed timber and cliffs, in an area populated by black bears, cougars, and irritable moose. We do have this river extensively GPS mapped since we fish there so often. We are willing to supply some of this information to our customers--but we are unwilling to post it on the internet for the public. If you've purchased our products, feel free to inquire, we can probably put you onto some nice little brown trout ranging up to 13 inches, in a pristine, remote environment.

Interested in carrying Little South Fork products at your fly shop? Throw us a line! You can download a PDF brochure about our desks, too. It's printable.

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