In from Tom McAllister: "To all his Flyfisher's Club friends: Gwen Wethern called me this last day of 2008 to inform us that Bob died at 8:17 p.m. in the Corvallis Hospital where he'd been taken by ambulance from their seaside home near Depoe Bay. He'd long struggled with diminishing health but to the end kept up his zealous effort to compile and publish the stories of the fly fishing fraternity and their rivers. He was so proud and satisfied that he'd achieved his highest mark on the literary wall with The Creel's 50th Anniversary North Umpqua River Edition"