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Back in December, Nelson Rossig celebrated his 100th birthday with many of his closest friends. In searching through old files, we found these clips of Nelson on the banks of the Eel River during the summer of 2006. In this minute and a half clip Nelson shows us how to tie the turle, his go-to knot. Although the knot’s been outdone by many more modern knots, it’s tough to argue with a guy who’s caught thousands of king salmon and steelhead on the turle, with leaders much more brittle than fluoro-carbon.
Although the instructional value of the footage, isn’t much (footage doesn’t really show you how to tie the knot), it’s enjoyable if for no other reason than it gives us hope that maybe at 98 we’ll be walking the banks of our favorite River like Nelson.
Vimeo the server we’ve been using is undergoing some server problems this morning. We’ll have the video up as soon as possible.
