Nope, not contemporaries time wise. I waz there in
61-62 in pre Forestry w/ Botany minor. He was one of the great ones in both. I went on for my batchelors at Wazzu and masters at OSU. Just Retired recently after long career with the State and Tribes.

The reason Rufus tied great flies is that he waz an aquatic biologist/limnologist and knew exactly what the critters he tied looked and acted like in every stage. Take a lesson from that.

He had a cabin on the lower Toutle River that we had retreats at. Waz great fun. Now it's probably under 20 feet of silt.

Fish flies! Catch a bunch!! Let em all go to grow bigger!!!