Joe Shirshac helped me with my business for over 30 years.
Joe Shirshac was born in 1922 on 60 acres of rural land in Connecticut.
He hunted, fished and trapped animal in the winter for their furs in the 1930s.
He told me he made "dead falls" which was a big heavy flat rock held up by a stick.
This is how rural kids made some money to by fishing tackle and guns.
Right after Pearl Harbor he and thousands of other young men joined the armed forces to stop Germany and Japan.
Joe joined the United States Navy and spent most of his service on a ship.
Joe lived in Lewiston, California working on the new dams on the Trinity river and did some hunting, fishing and gold panning.
Joe got a job with the Sacramento City Fire Fighters, working there for many years.
He took us youngsters fly fishing all over Nor Cal, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska.
Every time I moved or expanded my fly shop Joe would come and paint the inside for us.
He painted houses and tied flies for extra hobby money.
Joe worked at my fly shop for decades where he helped many become better fly fishers and took them on his group trips.
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