Jim Clarkson

[Rich Morrison]

I’ve only just been able to think about this. Jim didn’t really get an obit anywhere so I wrote one of sorts on my website. If you knew Jim give it a read if you feel so inclined.

https://classicpowellrod.com/tribute-to-jim

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Rich, that is extremely good of you to do that.

When we lose someone in the FFing world, close or far, I try to find anything I can on them and put it up here.

Not everyone gets an Obituary or a very good one.

I will love to read it.........


I know Jim was a top rod builder and liked by many.



We did some business together.

Jim and I had a customer in common who was taking a group to a good lodge in Alaska some years ago.

Jim built them all the rods and I supplied all the reels, backing and fly lines.

[Lew Riffle]

IÂ’ve only just been able to think about this. Jim didnÂ’t really get an obit anywhere so I wrote one of sorts on my website. If you knew Jim give it a read if you feel so inclined.

https://classicpowellrod.com/tribute-to-jim

Thanks for reminding us that friends and mostly the ones we fish with should never be taken for granted and always considered. In every one of my casts there is always the remembrance of the fine people I have met in fly fishing even ones who I only talked with over the phone, Jim Clarkson being one of them.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

That is a great picture of Jim.....

It is nice to have someone who knows the person well write the obituary or help..

Some of our old buddies had an obituary that never mentioned them fly fishing?

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One of our finest good fishing buddies, Skip Orr, passed away around 60 which was shocking for many of us.

His daughter contacted me right away so I could spread the word about Skip's unexpected passing.


Somehow I felt compelled to write up something to tell the family how much fun we all had together, fly fishing.


One memorable time on the Pit River at Deep Creek campground we made a big fire and sat around it in the dark telling jokes.

Skip and I came in late from a trip way up river arriving in the dark with our flashlights on.

Skip instantly started telling jokes standing around the fire with his waders on, rod and reel in hand.

All the sudden Skip fell backwards right in the middle on the campfire.

Skip was a husky guy but he almost bounced up out of that fire like on a trampoline?

We all laughed for a long time after that one and Skip was now a Pit river legend.

I wrote about some other fun times we had and emailed it back to his daughter.


She emailed me back that she actually read my email at his family home after the funeral and she said everyone loved it.