Cooler N' Hell

[Taco]

http://www.moldychum.com/home-old/2013/9/17/vintage-chum-wulff-and-gowdy-edition.html

[SilverDoctor]

Cool stuff

[Birddog]

Great clip

[ericlin0122]

thanks for sharing. pretty cool

[SteveM]

Great find, Taco; cooler 'n hell, indeed!

[scel]

That. Was. Awesome.

 

Has anyone ever fished the Minipi?

[FraserN]

Two legends fishing famous waters. Amazing.

[Taco]

Anyone notice the little 6' rod Lee was using on the big brookie that kept short strikin' ? He's known to have caught and landed Atlantics with a 6' 6 wt and a sz 22 fly.

[SilverDoctor]

Thought I'ed share, this is the Lee Whuff rod series, a taper he had made, I was lucky enough to find it years ago. Often fish it on small waters and large. I love the action and it’s not only fun on small streams but great for light dry presentations on big browns. It is classed as a 5 wt but the window is 4 to 7.

 

 

 

 

And as an added bonus found this commemerative reel. Don't fish it.

 

[Taco]

Well that's Cooler n' Hell 2 for this thread1

 

Garcia/Conolon made the fiberglass version. Still a rare highly desired rod even today.

 

Thanks Lorne

[bigbowtrout]

This is an early image of Taco and Lornce fishing in the good ol days

 

[Taco]

Smartass

[Ricinus]

The expression " Older than dirt comes to mind"

 

Cheers,

 

Mike

[SilverDoctor]

I'll take those as compliments.

[Ricinus]

Yup, the alternative is less attractive..

 

Mike

[reevesr1]

Thanks for that Taco. Makes me remember how much I loved watching/listening to Gowdy.

[Taco]

Yup, the alternative is less attractive..

 

Mike

My ambition is to die at 87 of heart attack when the grizzly is 2 1/2 ft away

[Taco]

Thanks for that Taco. Makes me remember how much I loved watching/listening to Gowdy.

Never got much Gowdy on CBC TV early on but when we finally got a second station, He was on Wide World of Sports Saturday afternoons.

[reevesr1]

He did Wide World of Sports, announced every sport under the sun. But I mostly remember him for "The American Sportsman." I found this on a google search, a bit of a tribute from BassPro (or all places). His talk around the 6 minute mark really reminds me of how my dad would explain fishing, if you ever pinned him down (and it's my dad's birthday today, so I'm so glad I looked this up-a bunch of great memories swirling around my head now). Anyway, here is the clip:

http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CFPage?storeId=10151&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&template=video.cfm&cat=Fishing&subCatID=26&connectionSpeed=hd&videoID=736&startRow=0&videoType=prodcutdemo&option=2&cmid=OLPHVIDEO_736_HD

[SilverDoctor]

I can't think about Lee Wulff without his wife Joan, a world-class fly caster and a marvelous person. I was lucky enough to meet her at a show in Montana a few years back. She still runs her fly casting school.

 

[fishinglibin]

My ambition is to die at 87 of heart attack when the grizzly is 2 1/2 ft away

My ambition is to live to 99 and get shot by a jealous husband. Otherwise get a head butt from a lunker bull or brown and drift away.

[fishpro]

What an awesome video!

 

That. Was. Awesome.

Has anyone ever fished the Minipi?

 

I was there 6 years ago, tough fishing but landed 18 large trout for the week, all on dry flies! Average size was 6 lbs, one fish was an Arctic Char. There are also tons of pike along the shorelines.