was never more real to me than when I first thought
really nervous. The thought of having to catch fish
of putting my boat on Neely Henry last November.
on camera to fulfill a contractual obligation was much
My mom and dad were here for a visit and we planned on heading out for a day, but I had no idea what to do to guarantee us catching a fish. We stayed
more pressure than I had considered. I can imagine how guys like Mark Zona, Dave Mercer and the rest of the television hosts must feel, and now I can
close to the takeoff in the center of Gadsden and
understand why they schedule shoots with two or
fished there. We only managed to get two bites and
three days in order to capture the footage.
lost them both in about three hours of fishing with myself, dad and my middle daughter Delanie in the boat.
Of course, the possibility was there for me to re- schedule another day and re-do it if it didn’t go well, but the concept was to show the good, bad and the
I really had no clue what to do and just began
ugly so I’m trying to film each one in a single day. Even
throwing all sorts of hypothetical situation tackle
then, if I did have to re-shoot, I
in the boat; so that I could try something to catch a few fish. That, and learning how different the waters are to
what I was used to are what
prompted the idea for the
Advanced Angler on the Water Series on Neely Henry. I figured, I would take the years of article
interviews and time in the boat
watching professional anglers
working at their craft and try and demonstrate some of the techniques – for better or worse.
When we set out to do the
first episode, I have to admit, I was
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