Coops Bait & Tackle

Driving by Coop’s Bait & Tackle… I do just that, I drive right by. Not that the name of this legendary Northeastern fly shop on the island of Martha’s Vineyard isn’t already the antithesis of expected nomenclature for a conventional fly fishing retailer, but from the outside the place looks more like someone’s house. It actually is someone’s house, one Cooper Gilkes III, to be exact…