Dave Whitlock passed away

Dave Whitlock passed away yesterday Nov 24, 2022 at the age of 88 years.

Goodbye Dave

Update Sep 26, 2023:

Here's an article about Dave written by his widow Emily.

More about Dave Whitlock I wrote along the years:

1) Listen to podcasts with Dave.

2) Dave has been an inspiration for my tying

3) A diving frog I tied back in 2015 and my search for the origin of the Dahlberg diver

4) How a painting of a Humpy Dave made looks so similar to a Humpy I tied

Here are two (actually one) few videos I found Dave fishing:

 

This is the same last part of the previous video, but a better video quality

Here's Dave tying his Most Whit Bug:

More recent videos, with great video quality, with Dave:

A DVD Dave made with Brian Flechsig of Mad River Outfitters in the mid '90s about carp fishing with a fly rod is now viewable on Youtube.

An interview with Dave

Weekend medicine

Tying a few flies during the weekend keeps the doctor away! 💊💉

The original Adams created in 1922 by Len Halladay for his friend Charles F. Adams had spent wings and sparse golden pheasant tippet tails. And it originated in Mayfield, Michigan. Nowadays the Adams has been 'Catskilled' and has upright wings and spade hackle tails.

Lady Benson, pink seal’s fur body rather than the usual  pink floss

30 year anniversary of 'The movie'

This year marks the 30 year anniversary of the movie based on Norman MacLean's novella 'A River Runs Through It'. This movie (released in October 1992) was responsible for an unprecedented surge of popularity of fly fishing in the USA. Fly shops had unheard record sales as result of the movie and rivers were suddenly crowded as never seen before.

Directed by Robert Redford, an impressive number of people from the fly fishing industry were flown in to help with all the fly fishing scenes in the movie, which is remarkable as just a fraction of the whole movie involves around a fly fishing setting. Within the fly fishing community this movie is simply known as 'The movie'.

As much as this movie having this huge impact in America, outside the USA I doubt it had much impact, if at all. Back in the winter of 1992, a few months after my first trip to Montana that summer, I watched the movie with a few friends in the cinema in Rotterdam. I remember sitting in an almost empty cinema, maybe there were 7 seats taken.

So, did this movie have much impact in your country (outside the USA)?

Lady Beaverkill

It's a wet Sunday...

From Dave Whitlock's book 'Guide to aquatic foods'