Just got word that Dave Dapprich, as fine a gentleman as I've met in the fly-fishing world, succumbed to pancreatic cancer about midday today. Dave was the President of the Lee Wulff Chapter of Trout Unlimited in suburban Chicago and welcomed me there with such warmth and hospitality that I stuck around, joined the chapter, worked, tied, and fished with its members, and eventually became its president. A civil engineer by profession, Dave was a dedicated fly fisher, bamboo rod builder, and traveler. Though he disliked public speaking, he loved demonstrating rod building or showing his pictures of his trips to Chile and elsewhere, but was most at home on the rivers and streams of the Driftless Area of southwest Wisconsin. Dave will be missed at LWTU and in all places where gentlemen are in short supply.

Mick McCorcle
Chapter President
Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited

[This message has been edited by mickmcco (edited 06 December 2005).]