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List Of American Fishers
This is a list of American fishers, denoting fishers who have been involved in various aspects of fishing, commercial fishing and recreational fishing. American fishers * Ted Ames – a Maine fisherman, and former hatchery director of Penobscot East Resource Center * Alan Austerman * Michael de Avila * Dan Bailey * Carrie G. Stevens * Dianna Clark * Luke Clausen * Rick Clunn – a professional bass fisherman from La Porte, Texas who currently resides in Ava, Missouri * Bill Dance (television host) * George M. Daniel * Mark Davis (fisherman) * James Deren * E.W. Edwards * Kim Elton * Harold Ensley * * S. Kip Farrington * Everett Garrison * Red Fisher (sportsman) * Gadabout Gaddis * Jack Gartside * Alfred C. Glassell Jr. * George F. Grant * Todd Graves (entrepreneur) * Linda Greenlaw * Zane Grey * Tom Hanlon (politician) * Ernest Hemingway * Jack Hemingway * Charles Frederick Holder * Jimmy Houston * Michael Iaco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fisherman
A fisherman or fisher is someone who captures fish and other animals from a body of water, or gathers shellfish. Worldwide, there are about 38 million Commercial fishing, commercial and Artisan fishing, subsistence fishers and Fish farming, fish farmers. Fishermen may be professional or Recreational fishing, recreational. Fishing has existed as a means of obtaining food since the Mesolithic period.Early humans followed the coast BBC News articles History 
Fishing has existed as a means of obtaining food since the Mesolithic period. Fishing had become a major means of sur ...
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Mark Davis (fisherman)
Mark Davis (born October 11, 1963) is a professional sport fisherman of the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (B.A.S.S.) and is one of only two anglers to have won the B.A.S.S. Angler of the Year and the Bassmasters Classic tournament in the same year. Biography Davis was born in Mount Ida, Arkansas. He has competed in 234 tournaments, and had five first-place finishes and forty-five top ten finishes. He resides in Mount Ida, with his wife Tilly and their three children James, Hunter and Fisher, Awards 3-time B.A.S.S. Angler of the Year (1995, 1998, 2001) 1995 Bassmaster Classic Champion Video games *'' Mark Davis' The Fishing Master'' (known as ''Oomono Black Bass Fishing: Jinzouko-Hen'' in Japan) (Japan, 1995; North America, 1996) *'' Mark Davis Pro Bass Challenge'' (PlayStation 2, 2003; GameCube, 2005) See also * Bass fishing * Bass Anglers Sportsman Society * Bassmaster Classic * Fishing tournament A fishing tournament, or Angling tournament, is an organised competi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Hanlon (politician)
Thomas A. Hanlon (born August 21, 1945) is an American politician who was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives The Oregon House of Representatives is the lower house of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, the upper house being the Oregon State Senate. There are 60 members of the House, representing 60 districts across the state, each with a population of .... He worked in the fishery industry. References 1945 births Living people Democratic Party members of the Oregon House of Representatives People from Hempstead (village), New York People from Clatsop County, Oregon American fishermen 20th-century members of the Oregon Legislative Assembly {{Oregon-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zane Grey
Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. '' Riders of the Purple Sage'' (1912) was his best-selling book. In addition to the success of his printed works, his books have second lives and continuing influence adapted for films and television. His novels and short stories were adapted into 112 films, two television episodes, and a television series, '' Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre''.Hulse 2007, pp. vii–x. Biography Early life Pearl Zane Grey was born January 31, 1872, in Zanesville, Ohio. His birth name may have originated from newspaper descriptions of Queen Victoria's mourning clothes as "pearl grey". He was the fourth of five children born to Alice "Allie" Josephine Zane, whose English Quaker immigrant ancestor Robert Zane came to the American colonies in 1673, and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Greenlaw
Linda Greenlaw (born December 22, 1960) is a best-selling author of books with maritime themes and the only female swordfishing boat captain on the East Coast of the United States. She was featured in the 1997 book '' The Perfect Storm'' and the film '' The Perfect Storm''. Greenlaw wrote three best-selling books about life as a commercial fisher: ''The Hungry Ocean'' in 1999, ''The Lobster Chronicles'' in 2002 and ''All Fishermen Are Liars'' in 2002. Her books have climbed as high as No. 2 on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list, with ''The Hungry Ocean'' remaining on the list for three months.Dave WeichTrue Tales from Linda Greenlaw, Powells.com interview, 2004 Greenlaw lives on Isle au Haut, Maine, and was the first female sword-fishing boat captain on the American East Coast. Early life Greenlaw was born in Connecticut, the daughter of Jim and Martha Greenlaw. Her father was an information systems manager for Bath Iron Works. She was raised in Topsham, Maine, and her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Graves (entrepreneur)
Todd Bartlett Graves (born 1972) is an American businessman and co-founder of Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers, a fast food restaurant specializing in fried chicken finger meals. As of April 2025, ''Forbes'' estimated his net worth is at $17.2 billion, making him the 116th wealthiest person in the world. He ranked #107 on the 2024 Forbes 400 List of richest Americans. Early life Graves was born in New Orleans, and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Graves graduated from Episcopal School of Baton Rouge. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia. Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers Graves and long-time friend Craig Silvey used Silvey's business plan course at LSU to create their business plan. Graves opened Raising Cane's near the North Gates of Louisiana State University on Highland Road in 1996. By 2022, the company expanded to more than 600 restaurants in the U.S. and the Middle East. The restaurants are named after Raising Cane I, Graves' dog at the time of fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George F
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles Leo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred C
Alfred may refer to: Arts and entertainment *''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series *Alfred (Arne opera), ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne *Alfred (Dvořák), ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák *"Alfred (Interlude)" and "Alfred (Outro)", songs by Eminem from the 2020 album ''Music to Be Murdered By'' Business and organisations * Alfred, a radio station in Shaftesbury, England *Alfred Music, an American music publisher *Alfred University, New York, U.S. *The Alfred Hospital, a hospital in Melbourne, Australia People * Alfred (name) includes a list of people and fictional characters called Alfred * Alfred the Great (848/49 – 899), or Alfred I, a king of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons Places Antarctica * Mount Alfred (Antarctica) Australia * Alfredtown, New South Wales * County of Alfred, South Australia Canada * Alfred and Plantagenet, Ontario ** Alfred, Ontario, a community in Alfred and Plantag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Gartside
John Clarence "Jack" Gartside was an American fly tyer and fly fishing author. Considered one of the most talented and innovative fly tyers of the modern era, Gartside was taught how to tie flies at the age of 10 by Ted Williams, the Boston Red Sox outfielder. Among his best-known original patterns are the Sparrow, the Soft Hackle Streamer, the Pheasant Hopper, the Gartside Leech, the FishHead, and the Gurgler. His designs have been featured in Eric Leiser's "Book of Fly Patterns," Judith Dunham's "The Art of the Trout Fly," Lefty Kreh's "Salt Water Fly Patterns," Dick Stewart's "Salt Water Flies," Bob Veverka's "Innovative Saltwater Flies," and Dick Brown's "Flyfishing for Bonefish." He was one of the first fly tyers to be profiled in Sports Illustrated (October 12, 1982). Gartside has been profiled in Robert H. Boyle's "Fishing Giants and Other Men of Derring-Do," and David Dibenedetto's "On the Run." In 2010 the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum inducted Gartside into its f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gadabout Gaddis
__NOTOC__ Roscoe Vernon Gaddis (January 28, 1896 – October 21, 1986), known professionally as Gadabout Gaddis, was a 20th-century American fisherman and television pioneer. Gaddis was born in Mattoon, Illinois and was nicknamed wikt:gadabout, Gadabout by a boss who said he could never find him.Hobson, Dick. (1966, April 2-8). ''One day, Gadabout Gaddis posted a sign GONE FISHING and that was 56 years ago''. TV Guide, pp 24-26. Gaddis, an avid fisherman since his youth in Illinois, was also a Bush pilot, pilot and adventurer. He began his career in the History of television#United States, early days of television by showing his home movies of his fishing expeditions. In 1939 he briefly hosted a program about fishing on General Electric's experimental TV station W2XAD in Schenectady, New York. When W2XAD became WRGB in the mid-1940s, Gaddis returned to the station to host ''Outdoors with Liberty Mutual'', which was only the second sponsored television show (Lowell Thomas's being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Fisher (sportsman)
Bernard Herbert "Red Fisher" Goldstein (February 18, 1914 – May 5, 2006) was an American sporting goods retailer, U.S. naval and United States Coast Guard officer, newspaper columnist, and poet. With his gruff voice, he later became a popular radio and television personality in Canada. When he moved to Canada in 1963, he launched what would become a popular radio talk show program '' The Red Fisher Show'' which moved to television in 1968. The TV version was set at fictitious "Scuttlebutt Lodge" and featured silent home movies of outdoors activities, often involving fishing, which involved high-profile guests, mainly from the major league sports of the era. Such guests included ice hockey stars Gordie Howe, Eddie Shack, and Johnny Bower, and baseball players Ted Williams, Roger Maris and Ferguson Jenkins. '' The Red Fisher Show'' differed from other outdoor living shows of its time by promoting nature conservation, game preservation and the "catch and release" mentality. The se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everett Garrison
Edmund Everett Garrison (b. winter of 1893, Yonkers, New York; d. February 8, 1975, Ossining, New York, United States) was a structural and electrical engineer known as a maker of bamboo fly rods and co-author of ''A Master's Guide To Building A Bamboo Fly Rod''. Everett Garrison's methods and designs have been utilized by generations of bamboo fly rod makers. His rods fetch high prices from collectors. Early life Everett Garrison was born in Yonkers in the winter of 1893. He was of Dutch ancestry. His father was an engineer who held two degrees from Columbia University. His family owned and operated a steam driven barge business along the Hudson River.Garrison, Everett and Carmichael, Hoagy B. (1997). ''A Master's Guide to Building a Bamboo Fly Rod''. Far Hills, New Jersey: Meadow Run Press. Garrison grew up in Yonkers and went on to study electrical engineering at Union College, where he earned a degree in 1916. He tested steel for Curtiss-Wright aircraft engines, and later be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
