The Greased Line Fly Shoppe, a Vancouver fly-fishing mainstay for more than four decades, is closing in early March.
Owner Mark Noble, 65, is retiring. He opened the shop in late 1975 and has been at his 5800 N.E. 88th St. location for the past 35 years.
“There’s not a lot of businesses that have been around as long as I have,’’ Noble said.
Noble said after 41 years of owning a retail business, and having taught thousands of fly-tying and fly-fishing classes, it is time to do something else in life.
He plans to have a liquidation sale beginning Feb. 17 and projects closing the doors for the final time about the first week in March.