Joe Howell is a well known steelhead tyer on the Umpqua River. He owned a flyshop called The Blue Heron. I was fortunate to meet him and visit his flyshop a couple years ago before it closed.
Below is a fly he tied called Howell’s Orange Heron.
Joe Howell
Greg blodgett
22 Oct 2017Hi Joe, This Greg Blodgett, Bill Blodgett’s son. Just to let you know he past away on the 12th of october. I know that he made a visit to the n umpqua recently and we had a special conversation about his trip down there. It has always been such a very special place for us all!
Mark Worsham
7 Aug 2018I met Joe Howell sometime around 1996-7 while staying with a friend / co-worker of my now late father in Roseburg, OR. I was fishing the North Umpqua ( I’m from California ), and HAD to stop in to meet him after reading about him for years. He was a very kind, and gracious man. Just being in his presence and having him show me flies he tied was a blessing !
BTW, ” Steamboat ” shall forever remain in my mind, like ” A river runs through it ” . . .