Who are your HEROS?

[Admin]

We're working on a something new, and we're looking for the names of the heros and idols that you've looked up to in fishing.

Contemporary hot-shots or historic legends, who do you idolize or revere in the history and development of sportfishing? Who did you always want to fish like or with just one time? What's your fishing dream team?

[Sea Draggin]

Capt John Eppehimer

[anotherprogrammer]

Capt John Eppehimer

aside from the obvious

[clt_capt]

Zane Grey
Ernest Hemingway
Kurt Gowdy
Ernal Foster
Omie Tillett

[Deep C]

Writers:
S Kip Farrington
Zane Gray
Ruben Jaen
Hemmingway
Gil Drake

Fishing Innovation:
Lerner
Ed and Frank Murray
Bob Schneider
Bart Miller
Charlie Hayden

[heykellymichelle]

My Grandpop.

WWII DE-sailor/vet, cancer survivor, fished everything from the south pacific to Ireland to the NJ back bays, reared a fishing family who in turned reared their children the same, more at home on the water than in the home he built with his own two hands. Carries a beat up 50 year old picture in his wallet of his young bride and their infant children, standing around a 50lb drumfish my grandmother caught that fall day on a handline. For 83 years now, my Grandfather has lived and thrived and fished on the water... never won any awards, never spoke at any big conferences, but taught his family how to catch their own dinner and set an amazing example of what a real waterman TRULY is, what it is to respect the ocean that feeds you. From sharks on down to mollusks, he knows his stuff.

Most recently he fought cancer for 8 years, hollered at the doctors to damn well do their jobs because he has great-grandchildren to put on the schoolbus, and was finally given a clean bill of health this February. His hair is white, he has trouble hearing, he has no feeling in his legs from the chemo, but he gets down and runs and plays with his great-grandchildren. And he still fishes every chance he gets, is still as at home on the water than anywhere else. He is proud as can be of his big fishing family, that his grandgirls are down on the docks working right alongside his grandboys, and that by ages 2 & 3 his great grandchildren were already catching their first fish. My Grandfather is my hero any day of the week but DEFINITELY my hero when it comes to fishing... an amazing fisherman and a true waterman, in every sense of the word.

His is a life well lived - a life on the water. I couldn't have asked for a better example.

[capemaychef]

My dad...Glenn A Messick Sr.....

Just to have the chance to fish/talk with him now would be incredible

[RiskyBuisness]

Ernie Foster
Omie Tillet

[captcl]

Past, Capt. Ernal Foster, Capt. Orlando Bunting

Present,Capt. Ernie foster, Capt. Butch Cox, Capt. RT Trosset

My dad always, he got me started in this saltwater adventure!

[whowantstoknow]

Frank Mundus - obviously...dream trip. him, me, and a sick chum slick!..im not one for shark fishing, but he is a legend. i would love to catch a monster with him. Plus i grew up watching the jaws series and.....hate to admit it, but sharks scare the crap out of me....i dont think he would give me the chance to run away (which i have done ), id already be strapped in ready for the fight!

I have had two shark encounters where they came within inches of me - Fighting a monster and winning would defin help me get over that fear!

The people on board would be my grandfather(if he were alive)...im sure he would get a kick out of his granddaughter/protege fighting a shark - sadly we never got to big game fish together, my father - he would be either beamin from ear to ear or fighting me for the rod ----- and probably larry the cable guy, yeah he is a bass man, but at least he could fill the down time with some serious comic relief!