It is with regret that I inform all of our members of the passing of one of our sports great personalities. Mr Jack Gartside passed away recently.

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"A traditional wet fly addict"

Uk representative and Instructor for Fly Fishing Masters - www.flyfishingmasters.co.uk

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Sorry to here of the passing of a great.

Now a legend,

rip,

Read it on Dan Blantons site. Very sad.

I met him at a "Partridge Fly tying Day", organised by the late Alan Bramley, at Alcester in '94 or '95.

He was an inspirational tyer, and great story-teller - the original Trout Bum. He used to drive yellow cabs in Boston for a couple of months and then go fly fishing all round the globe until he ran out of money. Then back to the cabs.

A Character!

Regards,

Doc

That truly is sad. I had the opportunity to meet him years ago at Stoddards in Boston, which at the time was the oldest fly/fishing shop in the country. I was buying a copy of his "Fly Fishing in Boston Harbor" (which of course he signed) and some of his Gurglers and Soft-hackle streamers when he walked in. Ingenious tyer of flies - an inventive an artist as any. I'll always remember him as a very generous man without pretense. One of a kind.