Backwater Angler

The store sits at 16829 York Road in Monkton, in the Baltimore County countryside north of the city, and it keeps deliberately short hours: Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, ten in the morning until three in the afternoon. Stock covers rods, reels, waders, boots, clothing and general accessories, and the shop runs a sideline in vintage and used tackle alongside the new inventory, with an online storefront for customers who cannot reach the counter in those hours. The business took over from an earlier shop on the same water that traded as On the Fly under Wally Vait, and it describes itself as having served this river for as long as cold water has been pulled through the dam. Guiding and instruction are booked through the shop rather than sold as separate products.