Jim Conway

newt · 12-07-2000, 08:39 PM

What ever happened to Jim Conway? Is he still around? I wish someone would get ahold of his old shows and air them again. It would be nice to have a chance to watch how fishing was in a different era in a simpler time.

You know, back when there were actual shows about salmon and steelhead fishing consistently.

What's the poop?

Jigman · 12-07-2000, 09:00 PM

Heard that he died in a car accident a number of years ago.

rob allen · 12-07-2000, 10:21 PM

Yes the version of the story i heard was that "lucky jim" drove his suburban off the cliffs at cape horn on the washington side of the columbia river gorge.
I agree i'd love to see his old shows on the air or even obtain copies of them. I remember one winter steelhead show he did on the Kalama. They caught a couple fish and cooked them right there in the river. They ate it with their fingers and it looked like the best meal a person could make I could almost taste it through the TV. I know I could smell it!

Luvtofish · 12-08-2000, 04:49 AM

I have a book he wrote many years ago on steelhead fishing. It is a paperback and very dog eared, I still read it all the time. Its so funny because I was thinking the same thing the other day, while wishin I was fishin.

newt · 12-08-2000, 07:10 PM

Oh man, that's unfortunate. How long ago did this happen? Accident? heart attack?

Anyone know who owns the archives to his shows?

Steve · 12-09-2000, 01:36 PM

Lucky Jim, was dying of cancer, after a life time of fishing, hunting and hockey and being active the thought of slowly wasteing away was unbearable, I met him several times while shooting film on the Clackamas...I guess the last time I saw him was in the early 70's...KGW should have the films in archives...

ryan fish · 12-09-2000, 11:12 PM

Yes it would be nice to hear old huff and puff again.

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rags · 12-10-2000, 09:32 AM

Lucky Jim. I met him several times back in the early seventies. I am looking at one of his books I bought back then, "Jim Conway's Steelheading Guide". It has maps and articles of his favorite 22 rivers to fish. One of my old fishing friends Andy Menefee is pictured a few times. I also enjoyed his fishing shows. Wasn't fishing simple in those days? I can remember only using 4 different colors of hotshots, oakies, eggs or shrimp and corkies. Didn't need anything else to catch fish.