| Elwood 'Woody' Combs
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| Woody Combs, who suffered a World War One gas attack
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| disability, ran a tackle shop in Ennis for many years. Woody sold the business to
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| Jerry Morgan in 1958. Jerry's brother Tom bought the store three
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| years later. That store is still there, now known as the Tackle Shop,
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| a downtown mainstreet Ennis institution.
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| The Three River's Special (Madison, Jefferson and Gallatin)
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| was Woody's best fly. I've been assured by guys who
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| remember the fly it was and still is a real killer--particularly deadly
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| for large brown trout in the deep holes just downstream of
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| Varney Bridge on the Madison.
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Woody Combs/
Three Rivers Special