Allan Rhoades Cline, a retired fly fishing guide and a founding co-owner/manager of Homewaters Fly Shop in Eugene, died of cancer on April 17 at his home in Eugene. He was attended by his son Wade and his close friend Gerry Morgan. Allan is survived by his son Wade Thomas Cline of Eugene, by Wade’s mother, Cynthea McIntosh of Eugene, and by Cooper, Allan’s beloved dachshund, familiar to all who knew Allan well.
Allan was born on August 10, 1946 in Washington DC to Frank Rhoades Cline of Virginia, and Margaret Esler Cline, originally from Minnesota. He had one sibling, a brother Roger, 4 years his junior.
Allan was raised in Vienna, Virginia, at that time still a mainly rural area just 15 miles from the District of Columbia. Allan remembered being dropped off as a child at the Smithsonian and spending hours alone wandering through the museums where he developed his intellect and curiosity. Allan’s grandfather, Heidt Benjamin Cline, lived about 10 miles away, above the Great Falls of the Potomac River, in a rustic cabin he had built by hand on the Virginia bank of the river. It was there where Allan fell in love with the outdoors.
Allan attended James Madison High School in Vienna. Upon finishing high school and
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