Tag: fly fishing

Lawrence Euteneier is an interesting dude. He’s an accomplished fisherman. He’s a handyman and a dad. He’s on a dragon boat racing team. He invented the world’s first computer – Web4All – that automatically accommodates special requirements of its user. He’s an adventurer – he was in the first ever canoe expedition from Toronto to Prince Edward Island, that’s over 1,000 miles. Oh yeah … and he’s blind.

Good News – It’s Earth Day this week, a good reminder that We Are Stewards. New campaign out from Recycled Fish highlights that. Meanwhile US Fish & Wildlife Service launches its campaign, Climate of Conservation – 50 issues facing fish and wildlife in all 50 states as a result of climate change.

Travis Lowe is a TV production guy from Canada. Got his start running a camera for his Dad’s Friday night music show on the local cable access channel. Did some work in corporate video, which killed his soul, and he moved on to TV news. Today he’s teaching digital cinematography and running a documentary production company.

The iPhone picture quality continues to impress.

When you hear about a “professional angler” you probably think about a pro bass guy. Maybe … maybe … a pro walleye guy. But a pro crappie guy? Yep. There are a few, and the man who piloted that is Wally Marshall. Back in the 1980’s Wally Marshall won a professional crappie tournament, started garnering sponsorship support, and became the face and name behind crappie fishing around the world.

We have a very special show featuring some of the authors who are using their craft to encourage kids to get outside and get fishing. Those of us who love the outdoors know how important it is to get kids outside, and studies have shown that nothing is more effective at doing that than fishing. We’re excited to welcome authors Kirk Werner, Mike DiLorenzo and Kristine Houghtman to today’s very special Fish Schtick.

Robert Thompson makes fishing movies, and right now, one of them – Musky Country: Zero 2 Hero – is terrorizing screens across the country on the Fly Fishing Film Tour. Robert comes from Montana by way of Michigan, he’s in Chicago now. He’s handy with a camera and tells a great story about the wack-jobs who chase Musky tales with fly rods … we’ll get some good stories out of him on today’s Fish Schtick.

It’s been too long since we did a show so this is kind of a catch-up episode. The focus is the Bassmaster Classic where we saw Kevin Van Dam and Aaron Martens make history, but more than anything else, we haven’t gotten together for a couple of weeks so it’s time to get caught up.

Randy Blaukat has competed on the Bassmaster Tour for 20 years and the FLW Tour for 13, fishing more than 300 tournaments with BASS and FLW Outdoors combined. He has fished in 17 Bassmaster Classics and Forrest Wood Cups, earning around $1.5 million on the Bassmaster and FLW Tours. One thing makes him stand out from the crowd in a remarkable way – his unequaled, unusual dedication to our environment and our waters, and his view on the “big picture.” Randy Blaukat lives off the grid. In his athlete profile, his hobby isn’t listed as “hunting” or “NASCAR” or “time with family,” it says this: Environmental Education.

Today’s Fish Schtick is a special episode for Stewardship. Things like catch and release and selective harvest have caught on, for the most part, but our waters are still in a lot of trouble. In fact, if you ask the US EPA – and we did – they’ll tell you that of our fresh and inshore salt waters, about half – 49% – is so polluted that it can’t support a healthy fishery. Is unsafe for drinking. Is not recommended for swimming. Half. Half our waters in America. This is not a third world country, this is America. And that may be the problem. What’s going in our waters has to do with our everyday choices, because our lifestyle runs downstream. But our waters also reflect our value system and in America, too often, it’s about getting mine, going bigger, better and faster. The good news is that our waters can be made healthy again, but it takes all of us working together and that takes not just sportsmen, but stewards. We’ll hear from three leaders in stewardship today – Zach Porter from All Against the Haul, Leah Elwell from Clean Angling, and Mike and I interview our own Brian Bennett who sits on the board of the Wild Steelhead Coalition.