White Clay Outfitters is your local fly tying and fly fishing store in Newark, Delaware with a complete inventory of fly fishing products including waders from Allen, William Joseph, and Redington, tools from Dr. Slick, Wapsi, Umqua, Griffin, and Marc Pettijean; tying vises from HMH,  Nor-Vise, Eumer and Griffin.  A wide variety of natural and synthetic materials in an array of colors from Rainy's, Umqua, Spirit River, Hareline &  Wapsi.  Fly line and leaders by Cortland, Rio and Royal Wulff.  Reels by TFO, Hardy, Tibor, Pflueger, Redington, and Cortland. Hackle by Whiting, Metz, Collins, and Keough.

Our store also provides a full service custom rod shop with repair capabilities. We stock over 300 rod blanks and custom build on blanks from major manufactures like St. Croix,  Temple Forks, Sage, Winston, G. Loomis & Rogue. Our inventory of rod building components and supplies are available from all the major manufacturer's like Batson, Fuji, Gudebrod, Flexcoat and U-40 . 

Discover our line of extreme wear from Aqua Skinz.  Select from women's and men's sportswear from Old Harbor Outfitters, Outback, Pacific Fly, ExOfficio, and  Redington, or browse the unique gift shop that features hand crafted gifts and local art.

White Clay Outfitter Newark, Delaware - flyfishing, flytying, custom rodbuilding, local art - more than just a fly shop.

 Doug Janiec is an accomplished fly fisher and Professional fly tyer on the Rainey's pro staff.  Doug teaches the beginners fly tying classes and is manager of the shop.

Doug spent his early years playing and fishing in the headwaters of Ridley Creek and local ponds and reservoirs in Chester County, Pennsylvania.  This was back when the area was still relatively undeveloped.  The Ridley Creek was still nearly pristine.  This was the time Doug developed his interest in natural resources.   During his high school years he watched poorly managed development severely impact the creek and the surrounding wetlands and forestland.  In the 1980s, Doug was off to college and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Masters in Biology-Environmental Toxicity.  During the later half of the 1980’s and well into the 1990’s Doug traveled throughout the country conducting ecological risk assessments and similar studies at Superfund hazardous waste sites, identifying the extent and severity of impacts from pollutants on ecosystems.  During this time, Doug was fortunate enough to marry his college girlfriend Mary and have two exceptional children Stephanie and Kimberly.  Fishing time ebbed and flowed during this period.  His professional career became consuming and total burnout was just around the corner.  With the prompting from Mary, Doug made an effort to cut back and put more focus his leisure activities, the top of the list was fishing, then solely fly fishing (she had no idea what see was getting herself into).

Ken Prager has been building custom rods for many years and has a full service rod shop at White Clay Outfitters. He spent a first career in the corrugated box industry and a second career in the post tension steel business.  Opportunities to fish were always available as many manufacturing facilities Ken worked in were in rural locations.  Ken has experience fishing the Gulf coast,  and in Florida, Texas, and Louisiana.  Ken has fished for bonefish and permit in the Caribean and Mexican waters.  He has fished the North Carolina coast for over 30 years.  Ken has fished and documented changes on the White Clay Creek for the past 18 years and continues to fish it almost daily (see the blog on the White Clay Creek tab).  Ken has spent many hours fishing the Big Elk in Maryland and Pennsylvania as it is within walking distance of his home. A creative fly tyer, Ken teaches the advanced and techniques classes at White Clay Outfitters.  Ken's wildly successful rod building class continues to attract new rod builders of all ages. Ken has recently taken on the task of webmaster for the shop.  Expect great things to appear on the two new web sites: www.flyfishingdelaware.com  and www.flytyingdelaware.com.

White Clay Outfitters is located five minutes from the White Clay Creek , in the White Clay Creek Preserve in Delaware and PA. We'll repair your broken rods, set you up with the right flies or offer helpful information on tying your own flies to make your fly fishing outing on the White Clay Creek more enjoyable.  Flyfishing Delaware in the the White Clay Creek Preserve in the White Clay Creek Delaware Fly Fishing section continues to be productive.  See our blog with daily flyfishing updates that includes locations on the White Clay Creek a Delaware River in both Delaware and Pennsylvania,  as well as water conditions and effective flies.

White Clay Outfitters offers the largest selection of fly tying materials in Delaware and the shop features a full service custom rod and repair shop.

The Newark, Delaware Store hours are:

M - F  11:00 am till 7:00 pm                

                        Sat 9:00 am till 6:00 pm                                        

Sun  9:00 am till 1:00 pm

Phone  302 369-9730

Fax    302 369-9731

403 Louviers Drive, Newark,  Delaware 19711 (GPS 645 Papermill Road) in the Shoppes at Louviers directly across from Bank of America.