Roy Houle

[kjackson]

This won't mean much to most fishermen in the Ozarks, but for those with roots in the Pacific Northwest, it will. Here's what I posted on my Facebook page:

To my friends in the fishing industry--I'm the bearer of sad news. Yesterday, Roy Houle passed away.

Roy worked for Yakima Bait Company for decades with fishermen, guides, pro staff and outdoor writers. He was responsible for numerous innovations and tweaks to the company's lures, and was an icon on Northwest rivers, lakes and reservoirs.

When Roy retired from the production end of things, the company outfitted him and his wife Lois with a motorhome and jetboat so that he could continue to fish and work with fishermen. He and Lois would spend weeks on the road, fishing in places like the John Day River, the Columbia, Lake Roosevelt, and anyplace he could find steelhead, salmon, walleyes or any fish that would bite.

Roy was a good friend, a good man, and the world will be poorer for his passing.

[Quillback]

I remember the name, sorry to hear of his passing.