Lost a fishin\' buddy
The Oregonian today (6/13) carries an obituary for Don Holm, the Big O's fish and wildlife editor from 1967 until 1981.
He had a varied and colorful past and I always enjoyed his stories because he was (a bit like myself, perhaps,) always experimenting with something new.
I first read an article of his in the Sports Afield Fishing Annual about 1962, called "Salmon in the Surf." He was using spinning gear and spoons to take fall cohos from the Southern Oregon Coastal surf when they were ganged up offshore waiting for the rains. How often do you hear of something like that?
He was also an experimenter with small boats and did articles on them occasionally. He often collaborated with Jim Staley, who made those elegant lapstrake plywood Clippercraft dories. He had a really nice cruiser built that way, then later even had a modified sailing junk built. (I suspect that one was better on paper than in real life.)
And it was just last week that I provided another friend with a photocopy of the sourdough cookery chapter from Holm's dutch oven (and other outdoors-related items) cookbook. My poor old copy of that 1972 book is being held together by a big rubber band. All my kids have grown up eating things from that book and my 8-year-old thinks he's now the king of sourdough flapjacks. :smile:
I never met Don Holm in person, but I think I would have liked to spend some time fishing with him. :depressed:
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Jack Mishler
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