Dave Whitlock

[fishinwrench]

Bummer !  😥

This from Emily......

[netboy]

So sorry to hear this.

I learned a lot about fly fishing from attending a couple of his seminars. Also, one of the nicest guys you would ever want to spend time with.

 

[BilletHead]

               Thanks for letting us know Glen,

  Dang this is hard to hear. He was a wealth of knowledge and super fly innovator. And his artwork terrific.  Dang again. 

[tjm]

Sad to hear that. I am surprised at the  30 years, seems like more.

[MoCarp]

 

[ColdWaterFshr]

Very sorry to hear this news.  He was one of the best.  Love that guy even though I never met him.  Pure class.

[Foghorn]

I bought one of his books when he was working for Bass Pro. He was tying some of his deer hair bugs and made it look so easy. He signed the book and drew a mayfly emerging on the top of the page and a nice rainbow getting ready to feed on the bottom of the page. That was in June of 1991. Found out later that his second wife was in a couple classes I had at Arkansas State. His Red fox squirrel nymph has been awful good to me over the last 35 years. Sad to hear of his passing. 

[fishinwrench]

4 hours ago, Foghorn said:

His Red fox squirrel nymph has been awful good to me over the last 35 years.

It has for me too. 👍   I quit bothering with Hares Ears about 15 years ago because the RFSN always did its job better.  

[Foghorn]

I first saw his article on tying the RFSN in the July 1985 issue of "Fly Fisherman". I kept that magazine all these years in case I needed to go back and review how he tied it. Laker 67 and I were discussing patterns for brown trout and I said it did a pretty good job wherever I fished it. I sent him some on a couple occasions when he said the Taneycomo browns weren't hitting his scuds that well.  He switched to it and also had good results.

[budman]

Sorry to hear this. Enjoyed reading a couple of his books. Met him in Tulsa about 15 years ago when he was giving a talk and book signing at a store called Backwoods. Bought a couple books that he autographed and he drew a smallmouth on a book mark for me. he shared lots of great fishing wisdom.