Posted 8/22/2012 9:47 PM (#580273 - in reply to #580254) Subject: Re: Al/Ron Lindner video
Posts: 180
Location: Elgin, IL
Nice... Have always enjoyed reading and watching Al Lindner when I first came home from the service. He was and is the man. Another learning experience.
Posted 8/22/2012 11:54 PM (#580311 - in reply to #580254) Subject: Re: Al/Ron Lindner video
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awesome video. Hopefully someone finds them a bucktail hahaha they really want one. Interesting stuff. Would love to hear more from these 2, someone should do a series of video interviews or a movie about them.
Posted 8/23/2012 10:47 PM (#580532 - in reply to #580254) Subject: Re: Al/Ron Lindner video
Posts: 633
Location: Bloomington, MN
Wow!! These were and still are the guys. The Lindner's took it to an extreme to become as successful as they are. I do have every copy of In-Fisherman, but "brown" I don't know. Every time I pick up a thinner rubber band I wonder if it is a #12, thanks to Ron. God Bless these gentleman for helping to ad the adreniline to our pastime or business. To this day every time I hear ZZ Top's "Cheap Sunglasses", I mutter out "What really knocked me out was his Cheap Al Glasses"! My friend actually wore moccasins while fishing just to be more like Al. These Gents have always inspired us to best that we can be!
Years ago Ron and Al did a commercial for Trilene/Stren, and Ron's comment was "The only place dis bait is goin' is down the trooght of a big ol' hawg"......When I change baits I still exclaim this brilliant line.
Posted 8/24/2012 9:02 AM (#580589 - in reply to #580532) Subject: Re: Al/Ron Lindner video
Posts: 272
Howdy,
I can honestly say that almost everything I ever learned about fishing came from these two gentlemen, and not just for muskies. I cant imagine how many fish I would never have caught had I not been able to shrink my learning curve from the couch, before I ever got on the water. Truly class acts to be sure.
Posted 8/25/2012 3:00 PM (#580846 - in reply to #580254) Subject: Re: Al/Ron Lindner video
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn.
Thanks for posting this. It was fun to watch. Not sure how old Al is but I suspect he's got 10 years give or take on me and I'm 52. I grew up reading about Al Linder back in the day's he's talking about here. June of 63 when that Sports Afield came out I was 3 years old. So as Al went through his various career moves I was following along behind him watching him go. I remember when he was a field editor for Fishing Facts Magazine. The Linder Bros taught me to fish. This was the heyday of fishing discovery and teaching others to fish. The Linder Bros, and Mr. Buck Perry started everything we now take for granted in the modern world of structure/scientific fishing.
Posted 8/26/2012 2:30 PM (#580949 - in reply to #580254) Subject: Re: Al/Ron Lindner video
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn.
@Sworrall:
Thanks for posting this. It was a great bit of history. The idea of you doing a book on the history of sport fishing is excellent. Get it done while the people that made the history are still alive so you can get the story from them, before it is to late. It was nice to hear about Virgil Ward. I remember his championship fishing show....Toledo Bend Lake and Bass.
It was very interesting to hear the discussion of the state of turnament walleye fishing and the effects of the recession on the industry.
Also very interesting to hear the discussion of the fishing industry development, and behind the scenes.
Would have been nice to hear a discussion of muskie fishing and it's future, and the state of the muskie industry and it's future.
Posted 8/26/2012 11:32 PM (#581046 - in reply to #580254) Subject: Re: Al/Ron Lindner video
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin
The interview was from a couple seasons ago, if I remember correctly. JK and I need to put that book together. Revisionist history is already creeping in.
Posted 8/27/2012 12:00 AM (#581048 - in reply to #581046) Subject: Re: Al/Ron Lindner video
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Location: Forest Lake, Mn.
sworrall - 8/26/2012 11:32 PM
The interview was from a couple seasons ago, if I remember correctly. JK and I need to put that book together. Revisionist history is already creeping in.
Yes, get the true story out. No revisionist history. Though I was not a part of creating the history, I grew up watching it all happen. I remember Buck Perry, The Little Green Box, Al Linder as a Fishing Facts Field Editor, George Pazik, Buck Perry, Bill Binkleman, Harry Van Dorn, Steve Fellegy, Spence Petros, Carl Maltz, the whole In-Fisherman saga and staff, and many more too.
Point being, though I didn't meet these guys and some I have now, but I read their writings, watched their shows, tried to learn what I could about fishing from them. I grew up with these guys as they wrote what is now the history of modern freshwater sport fishing in America. Some of them are still around and still in the business but we're all getting older and time is growing shorter. Some are gone now, Buck Perry for example.
Their stories need to be told and the history preseverd. I'm sure that is to big a task for 1 man and 1 book but somewhere along the line the history of the development of modern freshwater sport fishing has to be preserved. It was a time of discovery as to fish behavior and understanding of the natural enviroment that they lived in that brought us to where we are today.
The younsters coming along now need to know where all this knowledge came from, who figured it out, and how things that we take for granted now (depth finders, structure fishing, etc) got started. My first fishing rod was a cane pole. I wonder if any youngster would know what a cane pole is?
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