Do Any Of You Old Guys

[johnsquires]

Remember Bel Lange? He had a TV show on Channel 13 called The Outdoorsman. I saw a picture today of someone who looked just like him, so it jogged this memory. My dad worked with Bel at the TV station and they would often go fishing together. We got a lot of free lures and flies passed on to us.
I often wish we had such a show now for our area, something similar to what Tom Stienstra does, only on TV.

[Mickey]

Wow that's a memory from the past, I had forgotten all about Bel Lange. Google shows he lived to be 88, sounds like he had a good run at life.

The only local show (radio) I know about currently is Bob Simms outdoors 1530am KOVR on Saturday mornings. KOVR also gives hikm a 60 second spot Tue-Fri morning just before 6am.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

The Outdoorsman TV show with Bel Lange.


40 years ago when I worked at Sports Unlimited on Arden Way we advertised on Bel's TV show.

He was at our store all the time......great guy and a real outdoorsman.

I think Bel and his son, Bel Jr, bought Ewoldt's Rod and Reel Repair.


Bob Simms would love to do a TV show on hunting & fishing.

[Tony Buzolich]

I used to watch that show when there were only three channels of TV in Sacramento. If you remember Bel had a partner for a while too. Seems like he was a bit older at the time but the two of them would share stories and do fun stuff.

This is going WAY back, but there was another show called the Flying Fisherman or Flying Outdoorsman or something like that. And it was a fishing show too.

This was about the time I started fly fishing the American for shad.

Bill, wasn't Sports Unlimited on Arden across from the old White Front and Thirfty Drug Stores ?
Tony

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Sports Unlimited was next to Marie Calendar Pies just west of Watt Ave a few blocks.

In the 1970s we had a huge gun business with 3 gunsmiths plus the biggest fly fishing and fly tying in town.

[Tony Buzolich]

Bill,

That's the place. I used to go in there just to look at everything. There was another old gun shop on Fulton Ave. called Dick's. I think it's now, or was, Von Housen Motors.

We used to go in there and buy all kinds of different odd cartridges one at a time. Even bought a Browning .25 Auto there before I could even drive. No scruples back then. Used to shoot that thing behind Cal-Expo (before there was a Cal-Expo) and even got a bobcat and a coyote with it next to that old black railroad bridge.

Growing up in the good ol' days was fun. Tony

[johnsquires]

In Lodi we had a place called Stroh's Sporting Goods. Old building, wood floors, and a guy who really knew his stuff. Going in there as a kid was like going to a toy store for me.

[Dave E.]

Going back decades, there was a Bel Lange's Outdoors store in south Lake Tahoe. Heading from the Y towards stateline it was on the right. A real toy store for outdoors types. Dropped my fair share of play dough there on each pass through the area.

Dave

[k.hanley]

Say hey Tony,

The show you were thinking of was by Gadabout Gaddis. It sure does bring back big time memories. I loved that show.

You might enjoy this link.....

http://www.gadaboutgaddis.com/

Cheers, Ken

[johnsquires]

Good memory, Ken. I loved Gadabout Gaddis.