"I wormed my way up to the table and asked if he'd show me how to tie a fly," said Gartside. "He always did it." When Williams tied flies at a table between casting demonstrations, Gartside was fascinated. "They had this beautiful babe in a bikini at one end of the casting pool with a cigarette in her mouth and Ted would try to knock it out of her mouth," said Gartside. Jack Gartside, a noted fly-tier and author of many angling books, said he lived a dry-fly cast away from Fenway Park in the 1950s when Williams and heavyweight boxer Jack Sharkey were demonstrating flycasting at a sportsman's show in Boston. "He could put expletives together in a stream that became poetry," Ellis said. Later that day, Williams had a 130-pound tarpon on and talked to it, but not in language fit for print, according to Ellis. We boated it in 19 minutes with Ted screaming at m, 'Get off the bow. "I immediately hooked up a 100-plus-pound tarpon. "Ted put me on the bow of the boat," said Ellis. At the end of the trip, Williams told the guides he would take them fishing the next day. "He's the best flyfisherman I've had on my boat," Ellis said.Įllis recalled the time he and another guide spent 10 days fishing with Williams and a group of tackle-company executives in prime tarpon water north of Tampa. The fly rolled over the end of the line and dropped into the water perfectly. In Florida, he often fished with Gary Ellis, a guide in Islamorada.Įach one of his casts was perfectly made.
After retiring, he divided his time between his homes on the Miramichi River, where he fished for Atlantic salmon, and in Islamorada, Fla., where he caught tarpon and bonefish. In 2000, "The Kid" was not a trout angler. Inducted into the International Game Fish Association's Fishing Hall of Fame I think his brains and attention to detail were every bit as much the cause of his success as his physical skills." "I used to teach at Harvard," said Vickers. Vickers is now a doctor and chief of surgery. So he could go farther in the river and with his long casts he'd cover a lot of water." "I'm 5-9 so I could wade out in the water and I'd be up to my chest and that sucker would have water up to his waist. Vickers says Williams' 6-foot-3 frame also helped his fishing. "The fly rolled over the end of the line and dropped into the water perfectly."
"Each one of his casts was perfectly made," said Vickers. Williams' average cast was 85 to 95 feet, he said. "He was as accurate in making a fly as a jeweler would be in creating a masterpiece," said Vickers.Ī good flyfisherman with a decent salmon rod should be able to cast 50 to 60 feet, according to Vickers. Martyn Vickers fished for Atlantic salmon with Williams off and on for 30 years on the Miramichi River in Canada. His extraordinary angling prowess went beyond the physical skills of a gifted athlete. Williams, who died recently in Inverness, Fla., at age 83, took his flyfishing as seriously as he did his baseball. But he could have as easily been talking about Williams' split-bamboo fly rod. LOS ANGELES The sportswriter who dubbed Ted Williams "The Splendid Splinter" was referring to the bat swung by the world's greatest hitter. World's greatest flyfisher also played baseball
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