Your magazine does a great job in all respects when it comes to fly fishing and the many factors that affect it -- good and bad. It's for that reason I'd like to point out that the owner of Simms -- the maker of fine equipment -- has aligned himself with the Republican Party and its many and various anti-environmental policies. With our new Republican governor, the first in 16 years, Montana's over stressed coldwater fisheries are feeling the lash of unbridled development at any cost and a return to state advocacy of mining, ranching and logging; extractive industries with long histories of damaging our trout populations. Many regional fly fishers and guides have begun a quiet boycott of Simms and its products.