Jim Vincent, the founder of RIO Products and a longtime contributor to Fly Fisherman magazine passed away in Idaho Falls, September 27, 2022. (Photo courtesy Kitty Pearson-Vincent)
Vincent and his wife Kitty founded RIO in 1990 and named the company after the Rio Colorado in Costa Rica. Previously, the couple were managers and fishing guides at many fishing lodges from Alaska to Isla de Pesca in Costa Rica and in Belize. Together they fished all over the world, in waters as diverse as British Columbia, the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec, the Florida Keys Florida for tarpon and Norway.
For nearly a decade they lived in an Airstream trailer, traveling the U.S. and Canada. Vincent was a...