Vincent Marinaro

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. And has been my editor, and made me look good.



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