Jimmy and Roland

[Bill Babler]

Agree 100%

[willyfish]

 

[Zulu]

14 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

Got so tired of watching Bill Dance catch 5 pounder after 5 pounder in the PRIVATE FLorida lakes then try and sell you the No-Miss lures he was catching them on.

I have a few of those.... not sure where they are

[tjm]

Funny, I never heard of any of these shows, except the Dance guy, saw one of his shows at the brother-in-laws  about 40 years ago, and laughed at him over and over. The hero would make  make a cast wearing one shirt and seconds later when they show him setting the hook and fighting he fish he'd be wearing a different shirt. Bil never noticed it til I pointed it out, but it happened a couple times in that show. Guess i was either at work or gone fishing when those guys were on. That was the only time I saw Dance on TV.

[rps]

Fishing shows were not always theatrical. Any of you remember Harold?

BTW his fish fry coating was good.

 

[Johnsfolly]

20 hours ago, Quillback said:

Never have liked the fishing shows where they fish a private lake and talk about what a great lure they are throwing.  If they want to sell me a lure, film your show on Table Rock or better yet, Beaver and show me how it does on the highly pressured lakes we fish.  

Jeff this is the biggest reason I don't  watch many fishing or hunting shows. Many of us won't  have the money to pay for those same trips and really are not relatable to the average folks.

[olbasser]

Yes, Harold Ensley "Go'in fishin in my red ford country sedan".  Really hurt when I broke my Harold Ensley signature rod couple years ago.  

[Bill Babler]

Dance has some of the funniest bloopers ever caught live. You just can't make his kind of goof ups really happen. The time he caught the limb with the wasp nest was a total classic. 

The guy has lost and broken more rods than most of us will ever own. 

Harold was a pioneer. I guided him on Taney out of Main Street Marina when Bob and Jacky Cline owned it. I'm thinking maybe in the late 90's.  I think at the time he told me he was 85 or so. 

Talked about either Great Bear or Great Slave lake catching Lake Trout on a bait he designed called a Reaper. Lake trout were his favorite to catch and he wanted to catch the world record on film. 

He wanted to show sportsmen what was out there. He was just a might pretentious. 

Good Stuff

[Quillback]

1 hour ago, Johnsfolly said:

Jeff this is the biggest reason I don't  watch many fishing or hunting shows. Many of us won't  have the money to pay for those same trips and really are not relatable to the average folks.

Some of those hunting shows are funny.  I remember one where a guy shot some kind of rare African antelope on one of those TX high fence deals.  The "guide" drove the hunter down a dirt road to the pasture where the antelope were grazing in a pasture.  The hunter sets up his rifle on the hood of the jeep and shoots one of the antelope.  I'm guessing you'd pay at least $10,000 for that 'experience'.  To each his own, but that would not be for me even if I had Bill Gates type money.

[Bill Babler]

Agree totally Jeff