Three important ones missing there;
The expert - Male 40-60 - Fishing days 3-5 - Has been everywhere, done everything, and designed the t shirt, even though it's well known he doesn't really go fly fishing and gets his knowledge from magazine articles, to the point where you can predict what he'll talk about when you see the latest exotic article when it comes out. Normally betrays his ignorance by making at least one howling mistake that everyone in the shop notices immediately when boasting about his 'exploits'. On example would be the fly tyer who claimed to be a worldwide fly tying expert, who claimed that hundreds of his patterns are in commercial production, then proceeded to boast that he dyed his own 'malibou'! Stays 2-3 hours, buys nothing, insists on helping the casting of anybody near him despite not being a good caster.
The retired Gent 70 - 90 - Fishing days 0 - Has spent a lifetime fishing but bad health has forced him to give up. He desperately misses it, so at every chance comes into the shop to talk, rather than go, fishing. Usually knowledgeable and friendly, stays 4-5 hours, buys nothing, but is very welcome and gets free cups of tea, usually a sublime caster.
The 'price of everything' shopper Male 35-50 - Fishing days 10-15- research days 15-30 - Takes hours of your time looking at waders/rods/reels insisting on trying everything out. Then demands yoo match the price of a retired farm worker in Iowa who sells kit as a hobby for no profit, and his cousin Eugene will be visiting soon so there's no delivery charge either. When pointed out that it's impossible to match the price due to markets, exchange rates etc, the customer flounces out of shop in a huff buying nothing despite all the help you have given him. Same customer re-appears friendly as anything three weeks later boasting in a loud voice about how much he saved when buying his rod or waders from Iowa to the other customers, then asks you to show him the wading boots or reels that he needs to go with his new purchase, and 2 hours later, it all starts again. This man is cheerfully destroying the british fly fishing shop trade, and if anybody recognises themselves here, at least have the decency not to waste the shops time when they could be serving somebody who actually pays their wages!!!!
