The American Sportsman, great show, sometimes. One episode showed Curt Gowdy and his son/s stopping by a Wyoming stream and Curt says "this looks like a good place to fish", the boy cast out and on the first cast pulled in a very large trout. I turned it off.
Another time they were filming Joe Brooks, legendary fly fisherman, on a stream in N.J., the Muskenetcong River outside of Hackettstown. I was involved with a group of fly fisherman trying to make one stretch of the "Musky" No-Kill. They brought Joe in and fenced an area of the stream and stocked larger trout than would ever be put in there. Local people told the producers that you better not air that or there will be an uprising.
Joe later went and fished arm and arm with the locals below a dam. They aired that and showed him catching a few 9-12" trout.
Most of the shows very very good as there was no hunting and fishing shows on especially here on the east coast. Do-gooders ruined it after.
You had to love Redd Foxx pheasant hunting.
Last edited by JDW; 12/18/08 04:49 PM.
