Yep, "The Flying Fisherman" that was it. Gaddabout Gaddis, how could you forget a name like that? Tony
Yep, "The Flying Fisherman" that was it. Gaddabout Gaddis, how could you forget a name like that? Tony
TONY BUZOLICH
Feather River Fly
Yuba City, CA.
(530) 790-7180
You old farts member the Wild World of Sports and American Sportsman TV show with Curt Goudy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwb-p6TaTys
It was hunting & fishing, but not all fly fishing, with famous celebrities.
Lee Wulff took Curt Goudy to Labrador for dry fly fishing for giant Brook trout.
Thanks to Joe Shirshac I got to go there once to Anne Marie Lodge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwK0gYTzRz4
Newer video......at Cooper's Minippi Anne Marie Lodge in Labrador.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d4INm3CjXY
They have a Green Drake hatch there in July.
**This is a historic bucket list trip.
On most week long trips Brookies to 7 pounds are caught....the average is over 5#?........ the area record is 14# on a dry fly.
Bill Kiene (Boca Grande)
567 Barber Street
Sebastian, Florida 32958
Fly Fishing Travel Consultant
Certified FFF Casting Instructor
Email: billkiene63@gmail.com
Cell: 530/753-5267
Web: www.billkiene.com
Contact me for any reason........
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I remember Curt Gowdy being on American Sportsman several times. I also remember Arnold Schwarzenegger on the same show going into Yellowstone backcountry with Doug Peacock to film grizzlies. Another show I miss.
There are a bunch of the old American Sportsman shows on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...rican+sortsman
Bill Kiene (Boca Grande)
567 Barber Street
Sebastian, Florida 32958
Fly Fishing Travel Consultant
Certified FFF Casting Instructor
Email: billkiene63@gmail.com
Cell: 530/753-5267
Web: www.billkiene.com
Contact me for any reason........
______________________________________
One of my favorites was the SpanishFly with Jose Wejebe.
Died at only 54, flying some sort of experimental plane.
Best,
Larry S
Sun Diego
I remember watching American Sportsman with Curt Goudy on the family black and white every Sunday afternoon. The second Trader Joes in existance was in the town where I grew up. We used to buy ammo there before going to the shooting range. Times have changed!
Well, that's interesting because John Denver died at age 54 in an experimental plane crash. He loved Alaska and fly fishing. He used to spend time at the Little Mulchatna Lodge. Here is some footage of him fishing on the Alagnak.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/s...5&action=click
John,
Well, that does it! I'm not going to fly at age 54.
If memory serves me, Denver's plane crashed
into Monterey Bay.
Best,
Larry S
Sun Diego
To me, the words "experimental" and "plane" have never seemed a good fit.
I remember Bel. (damn, I'm "old"???) Another show I watched, but cant remember the name of was a guy that filmed all the shows on 16mm film, almost always had "shore lunch" and finished the show by turning a sign around that said "gone fishing".
I still have my first fly tying book (from Bills shop when it was in Town and Country Village in the 80's) by Jack Dennis, it has a picture of Curt on the back interviewing Jack..............with a tape recorder.
"For years, every time he stopped at the house to collect his paper money, it was the same routine. The old man in the wheelchair would ask him how he'd like it if he took him fishing and showed him a few things. He always said he'd like that.
When the old man finally passed away, his wife gave the kid a box of flies. He has them today, tucked away in a closet, never to be fished."
Walt C.<---------------------------- not me, though I wish I had written it.
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