Vincent C. Marinaro was born in Reynoldsville, western Pennsylvania, and he lived most of his life in Mechanicsburg near his beloved Letort Spring Run. Marinaro was a corporate tax specialist with degrees from Duquesne University. He was also a classically trained violinist and the master of 11 languages.
He was an innovative and talented fly fisherman, fly tyer, bamboo rodmaker, photographer and author. He devised many original fly patterns and concepts and was an author of two books, "A Modern Dry-Fly Code" (1950) and "In the Ring of the Rise" (1976).
Vincent C. Marinaro died of leukemia on 2 March 1986 in Newville, Pennsylvania. In March of 1986, the Letort Regulars fly fishing group held a special Last Supper ceremony in the great man's honor at "Marinaro's Meadow" on the Letort Spring Run. From a railroad trestle Vince's ashes were dropped into the spring creek that he had made legend.
He was an innovative and talented fly fisherman, fly tyer, bamboo rodmaker, photographer and author. He devised many original fly patterns and concepts and was an author of two books, "A Modern Dry-Fly Code" (1950) and "In the Ring of the Rise" (1976).
Vincent C. Marinaro died of leukemia on 2 March 1986 in Newville, Pennsylvania. In March of 1986, the Letort Regulars fly fishing group held a special Last Supper ceremony in the great man's honor at "Marinaro's Meadow" on the Letort Spring Run. From a railroad trestle Vince's ashes were dropped into the spring creek that he had made legend.
Vincent C. Marinaro was born in Reynoldsville, western Pennsylvania, and he lived most of his life in Mechanicsburg near his beloved Letort Spring Run. Marinaro was a corporate tax specialist with degrees from Duquesne University. He was also a classically trained violinist and the master of 11 languages.
He was an innovative and talented fly fisherman, fly tyer, bamboo rodmaker, photographer and author. He devised many original fly patterns and concepts and was an author of two books, "A Modern Dry-Fly Code" (1950) and "In the Ring of the Rise" (1976).
Vincent C. Marinaro died of leukemia on 2 March 1986 in Newville, Pennsylvania. In March of 1986, the Letort Regulars fly fishing group held a special Last Supper ceremony in the great man's honor at "Marinaro's Meadow" on the Letort Spring Run. From a railroad trestle Vince's ashes were dropped into the spring creek that he had made legend.
He was an innovative and talented fly fisherman, fly tyer, bamboo rodmaker, photographer and author. He devised many original fly patterns and concepts and was an author of two books, "A Modern Dry-Fly Code" (1950) and "In the Ring of the Rise" (1976).
Vincent C. Marinaro died of leukemia on 2 March 1986 in Newville, Pennsylvania. In March of 1986, the Letort Regulars fly fishing group held a special Last Supper ceremony in the great man's honor at "Marinaro's Meadow" on the Letort Spring Run. From a railroad trestle Vince's ashes were dropped into the spring creek that he had made legend.
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