Peter Laurelli fishes the waters of New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island with his fly rod to great success – and he takes a camera with him. His unique style is earning him well deserved attention – today, he joins us on The Schtick.
Tony Forte is the Executive Director at the U.S. Freshwater Fishing Federation. That’s the organizing body that allows the United States to compete in international fishing competitions. One day, fishing might even be an Olympic Sport. That would be the ultimate goal for Tony, who has had the honor of representing America through fishing. It’s a totally different take on fishing and international competition than you’ve ever heard, on today’s Schtick.
Rob Snowhite doesn’t call himself a guide. He calls himself a Fly Fishing Consultant. That’s because he guides on the waters in and around Washington, DC where everybody is a consultant. Last year he tried something crazy. He ran a Groupon deal for Fly Fishing Lessons. In a day, he sold 1300 deals. How he managed his way through 1300 new clients – plus snakehead fishing in our nation’s capitol, and the crazy kinds of people who you wind up fishing with when you guide inside the beltway.
It’s the time of the year for Top 10 lists, looks back, and those annual clips shows. We’re no different, we like to look back on all the awesome people we’ve talked to and recount some of our favorite moments on The Schtick.
This week, it’s our annual Fish Schtick Holiday Gift Guide. We see it all – everything that’s cool in the world of fishing – and we pair it down to the stuff we’d actually like to give or receive this Christmas.
On a sweltering summer day in 2010, Christine Warren stepped into a 24-foot canoe and paddled toward a goal that she never previously imagined possible. The Texas Water Safari is a 260-mile paddle race from the Texas Hill Country to the Gulf Coast. Run continuously since 1963, the course follows the San Marcos and Guadalupe Rivers to the coastal fishing town of Seadrift. Paddlers must complete the race in 100 hours. While the exhausting pace and blistering heat are reason enough to bow out, it’s the ancillary hurdles that often eliminate racers long before the finish line: dam portages, water moccasins, logjams, mosquitoes, dysentery, alligators, sleep deprivation, and equipment failures. Paddlefish is the first complete narrative ever published on The Texas Water Safari.
Good News for waters in Nebraska – the Keystone XL pipeline project is on hold until they can figure out how to run it further from our main aquifer … and, probably, until after the next election cycle.
Courtney Ogilvie owns the Nile Creek fly shop on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Surrounded by water and within a spey cast of incredible river fishing in all directions, it’s a pretty wonderful place to live. It’s also not uncommon to have some pretty sensational encounters with wildlife. And when he’s not in the remote wilderness of north and western Vancouver Island or behind the counter at his shop, he’s putting on events like the Spey Clave.
It’s been a long time since Brian has been on the Schtick. Today we get to hear his stories from Cape Cod and British Columbia.
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