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I have had a major loss in life recently and I am dedicating my article this month to a great friend and a crazy angler Mark Latham. Even though Mark lived in Salinas, he was a member of FFD. He only made a couple of meetings but he made many outings. Mark left this world sometime during the last week of March. As many know, Mark was living his dream traveling around in his Hi Lo trailer fishing as many places as he could. He died while fishing on the Guadalupe River in Texas. He was only 56 years old and he sure had a lot more fishing left, but I guess it was not meant to be. I first met Mark through our common careers and while talking to him many years ago, I found out he was also a fly fisher. I invited him to fish with me on the McCloud and I'll be damned he showed up. That was a long time ago and since then we have fished together all over the west. Please keep Mark's family in your thoughts and for those who knew Mark and fished with him, be sure to have a scotch and throw a line in his memory.
"Friendship is like whisky, the older, the better." Anonymous
"Friendship is like whisky, the older, the better." Anonymous
Gene Gantt - President