Aaron " Speybum " Reimer

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How many folks here used to participate in Aaron's "Day on the River" Saturday morning casting clinics?

Aaron Reimer operated River Run Anglers Spey Shop in Carnation, WA for over 16 years, and generously spent every Saturday morning on the banks of the Snoqualmie River providing free lessons to anyone who showed up. There was always an extended crew of additional volunteer instructors assisting the long line of casters who practiced along the river beach, creating a people-helping-people spey tribe. Aaron's Saturday morning spey group ended up becoming a wonderful social community of its own, and people came from near and far to attend. For those who needed to borrow gear, or wanted to try out new lines or rods, Aaron always provided his "Try Rack" full of rods, reels and lines to use for free. He has been a great friend and generous mentor to SO many folks during his time with River Run Anglers. For many years, it seems that almost every spey angler that I met on any PNW river would state that they learned to cast from Aaron. After retiring from his "day job" at Alaska Airlines around 2013, he & his wife closed the spey shop; moved to Ontario, Oregon to be near family; and have been enjoying a well-earned, quiet retirement since then.

Recently, Aaron's daughter started a Go-Fund-Me page on Aaron's behalf to assist with his current medical bills due to cancer treatment: https://www.gofundme.com/f/medical-...m=copy_link_all&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet

Aaron has been fighting a very long battle with cancer, and he has recently begun chemotherapy for an inoperable cancer that has progressed to his bones and heart. On January 21, his daughter reported on his Facebook page that he had..."finished his first week of chemo and is doing well so far. Three weeks to go then he'll get a bit of a break. Thank you for your continued support, prayers and donations. Please share."With deep appreciation, let's all hold Aaron in our hearts at this time-- and send him lots of love, light, and healing vibes.
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I used to hang out every Saturday from 2003-2006. Good times! Sorry to hear Aarons cancer is back.
 
Never attended or met Aaron, but I recall reading literally hundreds of complimentary posts. He’s got a lot of friends. I’ll pull for him too.
 
I spent a few too many Saturdays doing that thing with the Spey rods. I tried the Spey fishing but it didn't take for me. So I gave it up just to fish with my 8wt. I'm happier with a single hander anyway.
 
Where the Tolt meets the Snoqualmie and Saturdays, thanks Aaron

The Brook



I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.

By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorpes, a little town,
And half a hundred bridges.



Till last by Philip’s farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles.



With many a curve my banks I fret
By many a field and fallow,
And many a fairy foreland set
With willow-weed and mallow.

I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.



I wind about, and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling,

And here and there a foamy flake
Upon me, as I travel
With many a silvery waterbreak
Above the golden gravel,



And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.



I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.

I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
I loiter round my cresses;



And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

Tennyson
 
There will be an event to honor Aaron and do some spey casting at Ben Howard on Sunday the 13th. Starts at 9am and has been going on for a while! If the river is high, it could be moved to Lake Tye. If you're interested come on by!
Bill
 
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