Dave Whitlock

Because for a long time, fly fishing had this incredible collection of personalities who were...

the faces and the voices of this sport, right? I mean, Lefty, Dave Whitlock, Mel Krieger, you know, Joan and Lee Wolf, Gary LaFontaine, you know, the list goes on and on.

These people weren't simply great anglers, right? They were teachers, storytellers, personalities, innovators, ambassadors.

I mean, they kind of did it all.

I think that legacy is pretty, you know, you don't really, when you start this stuff, you don't understand that you are going to be an influencer, right? Lefty didn't know he was going to be an influencer.

Flip didn't know he was going to be Flip.

Dave Whitlock didn't know he was going to be Dave Whitlock.

Or maybe they did.