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Names of famous fly anglers, please

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The Fisherman

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This kind of topic gets started, it sticks in my mind.

 

Combination of all-around ability, wonderful human being, and sense of humor, it's Poul Jorgensen to me. I'll always miss him. When he died was when I stopped hanging around in Roscoe. It was like the end of an era. What a guy. RIP Poul

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Dr. Dave Rosgen.

 

His concepts in stream restoration have dominated the field over the last 20 years. He's a heck of a scientist. He's also a great  conservationist, fly-fisherman, bus driver (tranny is always shot though), rancher, hunter, and all-around good-guy cowboy with a belt buckle the size of a pie plate. And whose favorite song is King of The Road which he plays over and over on his jumbo Gibson.

 

DON'T BE DOIN' THAT ****! is his motto.

 

I once saw him drink a drink with a parasol in it. Maybe he's a closet fern-bar type.

 

http://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2005-Pu-Z/Rosgen-Dave.html

 

http://www.wildlandhydrology.com/

 

I will send this to his wife Kay, who will get a kick out of it.  :)

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I'll mention a few more scientists, because they have benefited all of us so much.

 

Dr. Luna Leopold, son of Aldo, perhaps the most important fluvial geomorphologist of all. Some family it was. Luna's not the only notable descendant of Aldo.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_Leopold

 

A View of the River is readable for anybody.

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