Steelhead Fishing history on the Island and a YouTube video
Seeking Steelheads is a beautiful little clip from the early 1900's courtesy of Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau. Brigadier General Noel Money fishing the Stamp River. Worth a view!
https://youtu.be/SNmSPiu271I
Seeking Steelheads is a beautiful little clip from the early 1900's courtesy of Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau. Brigadier General Noel Money fishing the Stamp River. Worth a view!
https://youtu.be/SNmSPiu271I
Artist and Fisherman - A brief history and YouTube video
Richard Ciccimarra was born in 1924 in Vienna, Austria. He was largely a self-taught artist, but the early influence of Moritz Daffinger, the Austrian botanical watercolourist, is discernible in some of his work, particularly the “finger exercises” or realistic depictions of flowers and dry fly fishing lures that he made. The artist also acknowledged the influence of the Swiss artist, Julius Bissier.
Ciccimarra immigrated to Canada in the early 1950’s and made Victoria his home. The handsome and sophisticated artist soon established himself in the fledgling art scene. A number of local and expatriate artists banded together in a group called the “Limners” which remained a force for more than 20 years. Besides being known for his fine artistic abilities, he was internationally respected as a master fly fisherman and guide.
His art evolved over the years, revealing a melancholy and pessimism that belied his outwardly sociable nature. He committed suicide on a trip to Greece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAK4_Q3e8WY
Richard Ciccimarra was born in 1924 in Vienna, Austria. He was largely a self-taught artist, but the early influence of Moritz Daffinger, the Austrian botanical watercolourist, is discernible in some of his work, particularly the “finger exercises” or realistic depictions of flowers and dry fly fishing lures that he made. The artist also acknowledged the influence of the Swiss artist, Julius Bissier.
Ciccimarra immigrated to Canada in the early 1950’s and made Victoria his home. The handsome and sophisticated artist soon established himself in the fledgling art scene. A number of local and expatriate artists banded together in a group called the “Limners” which remained a force for more than 20 years. Besides being known for his fine artistic abilities, he was internationally respected as a master fly fisherman and guide.
His art evolved over the years, revealing a melancholy and pessimism that belied his outwardly sociable nature. He committed suicide on a trip to Greece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAK4_Q3e8WY