When will a lady angler haver her own fishing show?

[clark9312]

I wish Tiffany fished

[Fishes in trees]

I miss fishing with Shelly & Courtney.  Those girls could fish.  Plus they always went fishing in really cool spots, spots I would go to if I had more disposable income and plenty of PTO days from work.

 

I distinctly remember one show, where they were trout fishing in British Columbia and their guide pointed out that there were probably trout in the shade caused by a bush hanging over the river they were fishing.

 

Anyway, in one camera shot, she made a cast toward the bush, got within6 feet or so (on purpose) stripped 8 or 10 feet of line from her fly reel, then executed a perfect underhand roll cast, her streamer fly landing 2 feet from the bank, under the bush, totally in the shade.  1.. 2… 3…. set the hook, 16" trout.

 

I know I would have a hard time making that cast given a dozen chances - 1 chance - with the camera rolling - that is a good cast.

 

The other thing that I liked about that show was how, toward the end of the show they would keep a couple of fish to demonstrate another recipe on their Oklahoma Joe smoker (one of their sponsors)

 

I don't know what happened to those girls, - they probably just ran out of funding somehow.   Anyhow, they had a good show while it lasted - IMO

[macmichael]

I wish Tiffany fished

She has arms?

[stkbassn]

Jerry McKinnis doesn't have a show any longer, where he would have kids on, so I watch Bill Dance and others, including the ESPN BASS shows, but they are always hosted by men. I want my kids (boy and girl) to know that girls like to fish too, but if the image is that only men fish I believe it sends the wrong message to my daughter.

On another note, because of watching the current shows, my kids now believe that the only way to catch fish is with plastic worms and not real worms or minnows. :-/ We need a show like Jerry's again, with live bait, and add a woman too.

 

I remember watching Jerry when I was young and I loved his show. I was really just getting into fishing back then but I remember loving his voice...very calming and it just became the voice of fishing for me. Of course I love Tommy Sanders and Zona too.

 

But more to your comment, it's a pretty interesting question. I have seen a show with a segment that has a professional female angler and she's pretty sharp. She would definitely make me look silly on the water. All I know is if Charlie Moore has a show then a show hosted by a female shouldn't be out of the question! LOL. I'd tune in but I love most shows about fishing so it wouldn't be a stretch for me personally. I play pool and love to watch the pro women on TV....fishing works too!

[Linewinder]

What channel?  I'm watching.

Bill Dance

[Linewinder]

Wow. I forgot I made this post. Made some interesting comments and suggestions folks. Thank you very much.

Interestingly, we made a trip last summer to Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia during a period when it was slow fishing for stripers. The guide service was recommended (Spike's Prime Time), we showed up and were taken out by his wife Cap'n Kathy. Well, my daughter loved it, caught the largest (10 lbs) of our limit. Kathy did us well because the other boats out didn't do as good. She spent time with the kids to explain how to find fish and when. So my daughter saw good no-glitz fishing, learned some stuff and that women can do it if they enjoy it. This is the type of fishing my daughter says she likes to do now (she's did striper fishing on Chesapeake Bay also). Better than a show. And she likes the little lakes and ponds in the area -- but may not always fish .

[Sam]

Never.

[Deleted account]

When she's willing to pay for it herself. Fishing shows have terrible ratings, hence they don't make money, hence content providers are reluctant to produce them. Besides, TV is going the way of newspapers. May I point out that there actually are a couple of lady fishing show hosts, so my answer isn't quite accurate. Oh, and who was that blonde Amazon who had a fishing/hunting show a while back? I'd watch that.

[Swamp Girl]

I just read this thread and three things stood out:

 

Glenn's support of female anglers.

 

How many BR posters in this thread are no longer posting.

 

How all the female anglers who posted in this thread are gone. 

 

 

[AlabamaSpothunter]

I called you a unicorn when we first met for a reason Katie 😉

 

Obviously, this is an old thread, now anybody can and does have a fishing show, and that's their social media presence and specifically their Youtube channels. 

 

If you happen to be good in front or around a camera, you could have a big channel, something I've said before.   When Milliken was fishing in roadside ditches he was more watchable than he is now catching DDs on the scope.    Folks including myself crave unique and entertaining content besides educational.  I just watched an hour of a fish geek micro fish for .5-3" mostly sunfish.     You're different, and that's very marketable.    A GoPro/dozen batteries/128g micro SD card isn't much added weight, and if you learn to edit, bam you got yourself a lady fishing show.

 

I stopped pushing it, but you'd be doing the world, and selfishly me a huge favor if you chose to share some of your awesome trips.   A video is worth a million pics.     

[Zcoker]

Wow this thread has come a long ways! Only ones that I know of nowadays who are going strong are Tracy Joseph aka Old Lady Angler, tournament queen Christine Fischer, and the saltwater gal Darcizzle Offshore. All of them produce great content and have a big following and may someday host a televised fishing show. Gotta start somewhere! 

[Functional]

Been following Christine Fischer for a while now. Really love what she puts out and her effort. She definitely earns every spot she gets. Will be interesting seeing her in a boat that she keeps hinting at.

 

Another one is a bit less about fishing but Chasten Whitfield hosts Their Life My Lens. She takes kids/people with certain disabilities out fishing. Young girl but if you follow her on any social media she seems like she really does the fishing duties all on her own. 

[N Florida Mike]

There are several women that have u tube channels that are based in florida. They are good at fishing but I suspect they have more viewership from sex appeal than fishing…

[Swamp Girl]

51 minutes ago, Zcoker said:

Tracy Joseph aka Old Lady Angler

 

Tracy just brought property right down the road from me.

 

14 minutes ago, Functional said:

Been following Christine Fischer for a while now. Really love what she puts out and her effort. She definitely earns every spot she gets.

 

 

I enjoy Christine too. I like how she shows  all the fish she loses. It makes the big  bass she catches that much sweeter. Plus, I trust her because she shows her lost bass. She's not leaving us to wrongly infer

that she's a perfect angler who only catches big bass and never loses fish. This is why I share when I lose a big bass, which happens a lot, but it's the way fishing goes. 

 

9 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

You're different, and that's very marketable.

 

In one of my three careers, I lectured to more than a million people, usually 600 at a time, but sometimes a couple thousand at a time. And I've had national columns that were read by millions. So, I know what it is to have an audience and I'm happier now being by myself in my slender canoe. But thanks for believing in me! 

 

9 hours ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

I stopped pushing it, but you'd be doing the world, and selfishly me a huge favor if you chose to share some of your awesome trips.   A video is worth a million pics. 

 

I might buy a GoPro one day and post the video here.

 

 

 

22 minutes ago, N Florida Mike said:

There are several women that have u tube channels that are based in florida. They are good at fishing but I suspect they have more viewership from sex appeal than fishing…

 

Sadly, I think you're right, Mike. I don't know the channels that you're referring too, but I have seen silly channels where the women are wearing full make-up and cute clothes. I don't even brush my hair or wear makeup for dinner parties and my fishing clothes look like I've fished beyond yonder and back, which I have. However, after forty years of wearing one Gore-Tex jacket, I bought another for twenty bucks on Ebay. It's old, but way nicer than my old coat. 

[TOXIC]

I call Teri Cindric a personal friend.  She has braved the abuse and stayed with a cottage full of guys on St Clair to fish smallmouth.  She was Angler of the Year on the LBAA this year and fishes both bass boats and kayaks.  

[gim]

I don't personally know any female bass anglers.  Youtube isn't really my thing either.  I think they are just mostly looking for clicks, views, and subscriptions.

 

My Mother is an avid walleye angler.  She and her husband (my Father) have fished for years together on an amateur walleye circuit here in MN.  She also fished with her own Father (my Grandfather) for a few seasons before he died of cancer in 2012.  She is very passionate about it - sometimes too much.  She almost missed my wedding back in 2015 because there was a tournament the following weekend and they wanted to pre-fish.  They fish out of a 2022 Warrior 2090 Tiller.

 

Years ago she also used to do some muskie fishing but those days are over now.  I don't think she can cast those oversized lures anymore.  Walleye fishing is a lot of trolling, jigging, and live bait rigging in a more vertical presentation.  There's very little casting involved.

[MN Fisher]

9 minutes ago, gimruis said:

I don't personally know any female bass anglers. 

I know one - Brit, who was my guide on the trip I had last June. Very knowledgeable and personable. She specializes in bass and walleye while her husband takes the pike/muskie people.

[Swamp Girl]

22 minutes ago, gimruis said:

 

Years ago she also used to do some muskie fishing but those days are over now.  I don't think she can cast those oversized lures anymore. 

 

I feel her pain.

 

1 hour ago, TOXIC said:

She has braved the abuse and stayed with a cottage full of guys on St Clair to fish smallmouth.

 

I have a female angling pal who's pretty well-known and she too has to weather the whispers, along the lines of, "She didn't really catch that fish."

[Zcoker]

2 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

There are several women that have u tube channels that are based in florida. They are good at fishing but I suspect they have more viewership from sex appeal than fishing…

 

Sell it with sex, lot of them doing just that, ruining it for other women trying to make a name for themselves based solely on their experience and caliber. They feel that the only way to make it is to show off their skin to appeal to male viewers only. The good ones eventually hang up the effort. Too bad because there's some very good female anglers out there, just as good if not better than a lotta guys I know! 

[bowhunter63]

Back in the day Penny Berryman could have She could flat out fish and a very classy lady 

[Swamp Girl]

33 minutes ago, Zcoker said:

Sell it with sex, lot of them doing just that, ruining it for other women trying to make a name for themselves based solely on their experience and caliber.

 

Amen, brother.

 

33 minutes ago, Zcoker said:

Too bad because there's some very good female anglers out there, just as good if not better than a lotta guys I know! 

 

This is what I tell other women, when I try to convince them to fish. Sure, men are stronger, but unless you're wrestling giant hammerhead sharks in the surf at night like the mighty Zcoker, men's strength advantage doesn't matter.

 

Women have enough strength to land big bass. And for the kind of fishing I do, which is paddling quietly in shallow water, men and women are straight up equals. In my case, having paddled thousands of miles, I have an advantage over 99.9999999999999999% of men. When I take my young buddy fishing, I don't even permit him to paddle. I don't want him to bang the paddle against the canoe like so many do.

[softwateronly]

Youtube and people are far from perfect, but I think a good show is a good show.  Now is the best time for low cost, creative entertainment to find an audience.  Story always wins in the end.

 

scott

[Zcoker]

50 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

 

Amen, brother.

 

 

This is what I tell other women, when I try to convince them to fish. Sure, men are stronger, but unless you're wrestling giant hammerhead sharks in the surf at night like the mighty Zcoker, men's strength advantage doesn't matter.

 

Women have enough strength to land big bass. And for the kind of fishing I do, which is paddling quietly in shallow water, men and women are straight up equals. In my case, having paddled thousands of miles, I have an advantage over 99.9999999999999999% of men. When I take my young buddy fishing, I don't even permit him to paddle. I don't want him to bang the paddle against the canoe like so many do.

 

I've seen a few women that can destroy a few men physically. I've also seen a few that can take on big fish. So strength is relative. That being said, a women can do just as much as any man if they put their minds to it, like you with that paddling. I couldn't even begin to keep up with that! 

[Susky River Rat]

There is a woman who guides on the susky. Mainly for catfish I think. I don’t know if she had a YouTube and I can’t remember her guide outfit service. She had a really nice rig.
 

Trait zaldain was a professional fisherwoman. She does the podcast with her husband. 

 

There was also a musky guide I think out of cave run that was female. I think it was Lady Luck guides or something.

[WaskaCrank12]

@Functional

Thank you for mentioning Chasten Whitfield (Chastenation Fishing on YouTube) and her "Their Life My Lens" program (taking people with cognitive/physical/other challenges for fishing trips). She is a certified Charter Captain and --- well read this as it describes what she is about better than I can:

 

About

Empowering the Next Generation of Anglers. As well as having my own Non-Profit I take Disadvantaged kids fishing. These kids help me more than I help them, they help me remember it is the little things in life that matter.They forget about all their troubles and focus on reeling in the fish. I was born on salt water, I am a licensed Charter Captain but now I fish fresh water tournaments(BLF & FLW). I want to share my love for fishing and new techniques, tips, tricks and some amazing experiences. 

 

------Impressive and a refreshing outlook on life. "They forget about all their troubles and focus on reeling in the fish" --- "they help me remember it is the little things in life that matter" --- that is some awesome stuff right there !