Jack Gartside

[BRK TRT]

Another fly tying, fly fishing icon has left us.




Jack Gartside's Home Page: fly fishing articles, books, flies, and prints




- Brk Trt

 

[coolkyle]

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[charlieincambridge]

Oh man, I'd see him fishing inside the south jetty of the Merrimack and back in one of my favorite creeks, which I'm sure he found way before me. A friend of mine has a picture of his apartment in Boston. Overflowing ashtrays, pizza boxes, and tying materials everywhere.At one point he kept a blow up raft in the trunk of his taxi. One of my heroes. Man could catch a striper on one of Logan's runways. Godspeed.

Charlie

 

[Ronbo]

A Unique man, a great loss to our fly fishing community.
Rest In Peace Jack.
Thanks for the video,put a smile on my face.

 

[Petergoodman]

My 11 year old noticed a few years ago at the Somerset show that Jack was listed as being from "Pluto" - Jack spent some time with him, and Peter left always asking about the tyer from Pluto. He will be missed.

 

[The Royal Coachman]

I didn't know the old fisherman but I'll remember him in my prayers.



'Tis evening on the moorland free,

The starlit wave is still:

Home is the sailor from the sea,

The hunter from the hill.


A.E. Housman

 

[Joe D]

"I frankly don't make much of a living, but I make a hell of a life" Jack Gartside










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[T1]

nice summary in Boston Globe, at:

Jack Gartside, 66; fly-fisher lived simply to pursue goal - The Boston Globe

we will miss him.