The passing of Frank Schofield

[jerry from sac]

It was with great sadness I learned the passing of Frank. I met Frank by coincidence fishing the Pit River when I was twenty years old. Frank was about forty and we just hit it off.
For the next twenty years we fished the Pit hard. We were both aggressive waders and never wore waders because we both knew we were going to get knocked down, but it did pay off. Thank god for Dan Bailey's aluminum cleats.
Frank had his own airplane and during fishing season he would come by my work and pick me up and then fly up to Redding where he left an International wagon and then we would drive up to Big Ben. Fun times.
Frank was not only a great fisherman but a true gentleman and a great mentor of life for me. He filed a lot of rough edges off me.
Frank is in todays Sac Bee Obit.
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- goodbye old buddy

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sacbee/obituary.aspx?n=frank-g-scofield&pid=186610108


Frank Scofield was know mostly for having a really famous quality furniture store in Sacramento, Scofield's Furniture.

As Jerry noted, Frank was one of the old Pit River group of fly fishers from the Greatest Generation.

As many true old outdoorsman, he had a wonderful life.

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I just called my mom to tell her of Frank's passing.....she had read it recently in the paper.


My mom, Betty Ann Anderson-Kiene (92) and her siblings went to McClatchy High School with Frank.

My mom said that Frank was a very handsome man.

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[steveg137]

Condolences on passing of your friend.

Jerry that's a wonderful story, thanks for sharing.

Steve

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

A Pit River group was kind of led by Frank Scofield of Scofield's furniture store. He had a half dozen fishing buddies who fished the Pit River way before I did....probably starting in the 1950s? Frank Laprezioso, Dick Hume, Gary Allison, Ed Hurley and some others? All these wonderful men are gone now but they had wonderful lives. These guys had a permanent camp of their own kind of hidden just off the road to Deep Creek Camp Ground and Henderson Springs Ranch. Neil Hansen told me they had a kind of old wood cabinet nailed to a tree with pots and pans they left there. I think they had a big table.

[donkeyhunter007]

Sounds like a great person who lead a wonderful life.

These stories always make me fish a little garder and really appreciate the time I get on the river.
I will hook one for FRANK this Fall!!

thanks you!!