Great Read "KD"......Frank is truly one of a kind and somebody that to me his life story reads like "Ted Williams on hitting baseballs". As a farm kid learning to fly to playing fullback for the Oregon State Beavers, then enlisting to help in WWII. Storming the beaches of Omaha and making it all the way through France in the Infantry to finally getting home to his beloved wife and family. Pioneer as a lodge operator / guide... environmental impact studies on the North Umpqua leading to a 8MM film on logging and sharing it with congress and many other agencies on his own dime, in his own plane. He has made the world a better place, even more so for the people he has impacted along his journey. I know I used to turn my nose up at those pesky Fly Fishing regulations on the "NU"....no external weight, no bobbers, at one point no weighted flies..on and on and on. Imagine you were at Fenway with Ted learning to hit sliders opposite field, liken that to Frank on the North Umpqua learning to fish floating lines or shooting heads with traditional flies, booming casts.....not for the faint of heart but playing on hollowed ground as it was meant to be has it's rewards.

Tell you a dead giveaway as to Frank's skills as a flycaster/fly presenter. When a guy lays out line, and the dry fly is moving down stream, and the flyline is moving across even flowing currents...you see the guy extending line by moving the rod tip up, and down feeding out line, and not having to mend by throwing line upstream, the guy is an accomplished angler. You won't see a newbie extending line that way.

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It's always been my experience that the previous generations can out fish, hunt, and work the current generation. Their experience is invaluable.