Vincent Marinaro

JC, I read your "Flies Only" Report and was amazed at the results. It is a definate must read for all. It has opened up a new look at dry tying. The length of the split tails and the way it was balanced,The angles.

Your research, had to be a labor of love, and with Mr. Vincent Marinaro as a mentor !!

What can one say, except you where blessed.

Very impressive, and concise.

Thank you for that article

Just a Rookie

Philip



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I look into... my fly box, and think about all the elements I should consider in choosing the perfect fly: water temperature, what stage of development the bugs are in, what the fish are eating right now. Then I remember what a guide told me: 'Ninety percent of what a trout eats is brown and fuzzy and about five-eighths of an inch long.' - Allison Moir.

I read Vince Marinaro's "Modern Dry Fly Code" for the first time this year, and then read it three more times. I think it's the best book ever written about the kind of spring creek fishing I do. His observations about terrestrials and minutiae are dead on. In my own case, I had figured out the terrestrial part. But once I started seriously fishing the small stuff, my success rate with tough, big fish went through the roof.
Eric

Eric, I plan on purchasing the book. I have two small creeks with small brookies close by.

Philip

Now find Ring of the Rise by Vince.
He felt he didn't get the job done with the first book, so he wrote the "Ring"...more to ponder. JC and I edited the Montana and Michigan parts for him before it went to the publisher. It was a wonderful experience.
We had lived in Michigan of course, and were living in Montana at the time. We 'corresponded' by tape recordings, which we still have. They should go to a museum.

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LadyFisher, Publisher of
FAOL

I had the pleasure of meeting and chatting with Vince many years ago in the twilight of his life and getting him to inscribe my copies of both "Ring of the Rise" and "Modern Dry Fly Code". He was a fascinating man, especially to an awestruck kid.

When I made my first trip to the Letort many years prior to that meeting, I was in awe after reading those two books. Some of Vince's and Charlie Fox's "screens" were still standing along the banks in Fox's Meadow. These screens were what they hid behind to observe the trout and take some of the photos that adorn the pages of both books.

In those days names like Marinaro, Fox, Harvey, Schweibert and the rest were our fishing heroes, bigger than life, bigger than Hollywood stars; the stuff dreams were made of. Sadly today, many younger fly fishers never heard of some of these pioneers of the sport or worse yet, don't care. It's like idolizing Barry Bonds without knowing who Babe Ruth was. You just don't know what you're missing!

LadyFisher:

I am sure the Pennsylvania Fly Fishing Museum would be interested in copies of those tapes. Through the generosity of the Marinaro family they have most of Vince's personal fishing belongings. Those tapes would be a wonderful addition.
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If the link doesn't work the PFFMA phone number is: 717-541-0622.

I've tried to find the referenced article by "JC" and can't. I've looked throught "James Castwell" (I'm hopeing that is "JC") and with no "search" device on the site am at a loss to locate said article. Anyone help?

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In life, as in fly fishing, don't get in over your waders.

Sorry! It's even to my left at the top to the topic list!

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In life, as in fly fishing, don't get in over your waders.

Im having a hard time finding the artical
also. I never knew Vince but I have heard
alot of great stories about him and Charlie
from Ed Shenk.What I would give to been able
to have known and fished with these great
heroes of that time. Hey Bamboozle how ya
been.Is the Springs fishing well? LDV

Ladyfisher;

Those tapes would be extremely interesting turned into MP3s and set free upon the fishing world. (Pretty simple with some software I recently found.) I suppose a fishing museum would also be nice.

I have good intentions of reading more of Vince's stuff, but I gotta finish my Master's first. http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/smile.gif

Don

LDV:

Now which "Springs" would you be talking about:

Big Springs
Green Springs
Falling Springs
Letort "Spring" Run
or the Breeches in Boiling Springs?

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URL connection to "Flies Only", which really is JC's appendix to Vince Marinaro's "Modern Dry Fly Code" & "Ring of the Rise". Somewhat similar to Charles Cotton's appendix to "The Compleat Angler" by Izaak Walton.

In JC's Conclusion to the "Flies Only" series he had this to say about the series and Vince Marinaro....

As a tribute to my mentor, I now share with you the only known sequence of Vincent Marinaro casting a cane rod he had just built during the winter and brought to Michigan?s AuSable river to fish the ?Hendrickson? hatch. This series is on the South Branch of that famous river. Later that day, he broke that rod. He then completely destroyed it and eventually made it into bodkins, it?s life was terminated. The photo?s are large and will take a little time to load. They are worth it.


I still have some audio tapes that we used to communicate with each other. I have some letters and some sixteen millimeter footage of him fishing. I was fortunate to be involved with his presentation and development of, In The Ring of The Rise, his last book. Most valued of all, I have his memories.

He wanted me to do a final book, one to follow his last. The one to put it all together, to prove the point, to make the fly fishing community finally understand. He felt he had never quite accomplished the job. The publisher was selected and ready, but I was not. Now his thorax tie is in cyber-space, I have done at least that much.

Perhaps his style of tie takes a fly-fisher to far, to fast. Perhaps it robs one of the trip, the venture; for it is that very trip that is in itself it?s own end. Fly fishing is indeed a journey; for those fortunate few, a life-long journey. I started when I was eight.

Once learned, a thing can not be un-learned. One can not go back. Vincent Marinaro took me to the plateau of his peers. For that I am grateful, forever grateful. If you are blessed to find a mentor, you are truly blessed; I was.

Believe me when I say lot of us members had to nag JC, to take the slides and his road show script, and turn it into the published work it now is.

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~ Parnelli

"To give someone the title of "Mentor", is the highest praise you can ever give someone, and to honored them!"


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I know how long it runs JC, I watched your presentation at the South Dakota Fish-In (1999) that Al Campbell was the host.

It was a wet and stormy night.... we were watching the slide show in an outdoor shed (unheated), completely awed by the scope of your research and the information you presented. Your series "Dry Fly" is a condensed version, but does not lack any of the information of that slide show.

I am glad you wrote that slide show, as a series on FAOL, so those who may never get to see the slide show presentation, may still learn the core information that was presented that night. With the "Dry Fly" series, you fulfilled your obligation to your mentor "Vince Marinaro"!

~Parnelli

PS: I have been blessed with many who I can honestly give the title of "Mentor"

Al Campbell, who has been so unassuming, sharing his knowledge!

Leon Chandler: Who helped when I was having difficulty with learning to cast a fly line.

James Birkholm: Who has helped me in my writing, and calling me to task, when I stray.

Deanna Birkholm: Who has helped me understand James Birkholm. http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/biggrin.gif And has been my editor, and made me look good.



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