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Whatever Happened to "Small" Business in Montana? Simms Fishing Products

September 22, 2006 /

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Retirement dreams of running a small fly-fishing gear outfit fade away after a peek inside the operations of the real thing in Montana

I always dreamed I would retire in my late 50s, buy a small fly-fishing gear company, and spend my twilight years running a simple small business and telling fish stories. Boy, was I wrong.

I spent time over the past couple of months with K.C. Walsh, owner and president of Simms Fishing Products http://www.simmsfishing.com/ , the world’s premier fly-fishing gear company. One of the products Simms makes is fishing waders—how tough can that be, right? Wrong again. It turns out that Walsh is running one of the most complex small businesses I have ever seen—and to do it he keeps up a pace that would put many Fortune 500 CEOs I know to shame. (Since I began talking to Walsh about his business, he has asked me to help Simms out with its corporate strategy beginning in 2007.)

By Keith McFarland

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