We are sad to announce that on Saturday, March 17th, our beloved comrade Dr. Robert Franklin peacefully passed away among family in Austin, Texas. To his angling friends and viewers of silly fishing films, the soft spoken white-haired Texas gentleman was known simply as the "Doc of the Drakes." To the 28,000 patients he served over 50 years, Dr. Robert…
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I suppose there are two types of filmmakers. Those who know what they are hoping for when they set out to shoot footage, and those who don't. I fall into the latter category. I had never met Robert Franklin, and when SCO Guide Pete Wood invited me to come along to fish the brown drakes with this fellow everyone called…
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