Trout Unlimited TV program

"George Cleveland" wrote in message
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//snip//
And yet the latest issue Trout (TU's magazine) has a very nice story on
Appalachian brook trout, including a shot of a stream that looks for all
the
world as if its flowing down a grand staircase built of car sized
boulders. And
no pictures of mesomorphic brookies.

//snip//
It is a very good article. If they'd spent a little time and effort maybe
they could have had the TV crew tag along on that story. Christopher Camuto,
who wrote the article in Trout, has a marvelous appreciation for the
mountains, and if he'd let a TV crew participate I'm sure it would have been
an interesting program.

Bob

well george... why not talk to wolfie, and the two of you come on down
for some brookie chasing in nc. bring the tu teevee crew along and we'll
"put on a show"... but i'm not carryin the teevee cameras, or lights,
or gaffs, or anydamnthinglikeit. g

jeff

George Cleveland wrote:


And yet the latest issue Trout (TU's magazine) has a very nice story on
Appalachian brook trout, including a shot of a stream that looks for all the
world as if its flowing down a grand staircase built of car sized boulders. And
no pictures of mesomorphic brookies.

Also the TU TV show last year did an episode on the Mecan R. in Wisconsin where
they were virtually rained out and spent most of the show talking water quality
and tying flies. Which, come to think of it, may explain why they might have
felt a need to spice up the production values this year.

g.c.

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 20:53:45 -0400, Jeff Miller
wrote:

well george... why not talk to wolfie, and the two of you come on down
for some brookie chasing in nc. bring the tu teevee crew along and we'll
"put on a show"... but i'm not carryin the teevee cameras, or lights,
or gaffs, or anydamnthinglikeit. g

jeff

What month in the springtime would be the best? No promises but, as I've written
before, the mother-in-law lives in Fairfield Glade TN and I have permission to
abandon Jacci there if we ever go back down to visit.

g.c.


George Cleveland wrote:


And yet the latest issue Trout (TU's magazine) has a very nice story on
Appalachian brook trout, including a shot of a stream that looks for all the
world as if its flowing down a grand staircase built of car sized boulders. And
no pictures of mesomorphic brookies.

Also the TU TV show last year did an episode on the Mecan R. in Wisconsin where
they were virtually rained out and spent most of the show talking water quality
and tying flies. Which, come to think of it, may explain why they might have
felt a need to spice up the production values this year.

g.c.

I saw this program and had about the same reaction as most.

What disgusted me the most was that it was the typical TUTV - let's show off
our National Office flunkies and what great fly fishers they are. Nevermind
that most local chapters have never invited her back for another
presentation because of complaints from the membership.

As for the Back the Brookies program, it was devised by her to keep her job
and that's about it. Did it save the Mountain Aquaculture Research Center at
Western Carolina University which was THE place that was doing true research
on native-strain Southern App. Brook Trout and establishing their range
throughout WNC? No.

-John in WNC

"Bob Patton" rwpmailatcharterdotnet wrote in message
...
Yesterday I saw a TV program produced by TU and filmed near Asheville NC.
Showed the guys in a driftboat in the Tuckaseigee river catching what
looked
like one stocker trout after another followed by some very large rainbows.
Then they talked about going elsewhere and how beautiful the native
southern
appalachian brook trout are. Next thing we see are our heroes at a
different
spot that they had to walk to (apparently not a long walk from wherever
they
parked) and they are catching multiple 4-lb brook trout.

They made a few comments that, properly parsed and analyzed, might imply
that such brookies are not normal. But I think the comments were in the "I
did not have sex with that woman" category.

Extremely disappointing to see TU produce a program that, to me at least,
pushed the edge of the envelope on truth. They could have done a very
interesting and truthful program on native trout, but they did something
far
different. It looks more like a commercial for a guide service whose name
was generously shown many times. Anybody else see it?

Bob

Yesterday I saw a TV program produced by TU and filmed near Asheville NC.
Showed the guys in a driftboat in the Tuckaseigee river catching what looked
like one stocker trout after another followed by some very large rainbows.
Then they talked about going elsewhere and how beautiful the native southern
appalachian brook trout are. Next thing we see are our heroes at a different
spot that they had to walk to (apparently not a long walk from wherever they
parked) and they are catching multiple 4-lb brook trout.

They made a few comments that, properly parsed and analyzed, might imply
that such brookies are not normal. But I think the comments were in the "I
did not have sex with that woman" category.

Extremely disappointing to see TU produce a program that, to me at least,
pushed the edge of the envelope on truth. They could have done a very
interesting and truthful program on native trout, but they did something far
different. It looks more like a commercial for a guide service whose name
was generously shown many times. Anybody else see it?

Bob


The reason I quit watching ALL fishing and hunting shows years ago.

-pw

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livingston/emigrant,montana
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