Off the Water with Hank Parker ep 24- Q&A + Storytime
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
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You need to write a book 📚 Hank!
Love listening to these stories! 😊
Great show and stories. Enjoy watching Sarabeth and you. The Era you talk was also my time of serious bass fishing. Got to see you at Wildlife banquet dinner @ Maysville Baptist in GA probably 8-10 yrs ago and again a thrilling evening was had by all. Thanks Hank.
Hey Hank Parker's Outdoor Magazine, I'm a huge fan of your show. I'm wondering if you would consider uploading full episodes of your show from Season 5 in 1989? I'd love to relive those classic episodes!👍
Loved your stories ! I remember the good old days with you, OT, Jimmy and Chris, and the rest of our gang! I wish I knew how to get in touch with Karen and John.
Love this majestic story telling
Was friends with the late Charlie Foster loved going to the bass shack and listening to Charlie’s tournament stories, enjoying the same on your podcast
Out of all the tv fishing shows I watched as a kid yours was my favorite. I have more expensive rods but nobody touches my Hank Parker rod.
Enjoyed the stories. Thanks for sharing!
Love the show!
Never get tired to hearing your stories!
I really enjoyed following you old timers back in the heyday but not so much with this present bunch
I was at the weigh in at Louisville, Kentucky when BASS fished the Ohio River when a guy came into the arena with a brown paper bag over his head! Was that you Hank?😂
24:39 man hell nah i can’t believe yall had to accept that type of nonsense im keeping two sets of gloves in my boat for situations like that
About Hummingbird technology.
There is the way in which Hank describes as an angler and recreational sports person at his stage of maturity (and it's not unlike anglers in recent years who I knew who were top fly fishing salmon anglers who waded angry rivers that had real hazards and currents in them, who no longer can do that same thing, but they don't wish to abandon all fishing as yet). I've had to train and learn myself how to work with baits and casting reels myself, coming from an un-weighted fly fishing still water, salt water and moving river water angling experience. So that I felt confident that I could put that technology of baitcasting rods, reels and lines into the hands of retired mature former sports persons, as a means by which to enable those same anglers to continue to fish the rivers which they know so well. At a time when they are no longer able to climb down off the bank and submerge themselves in a few feet of water current.
Even though Hank Parker is a twice Bassmaster Classic winning angler and sports person, I can still understand that at a certain point in life that Hank doesn't want to chase the fish to the extent that he once did do. And that technology can provide means by which these formerly champion level of outdoor sports person, can continue to extract the most out of what time and capability they still possess as anglers today. And continue to enjoy fishing, even whilst the technology has created an electronic lock or noose, or otherwise restraint on the little green fish. That the angler is trying to cast to using the rod and reel.
The way in which Hank described the technology that enables him to enjoy fishing at this later stage in his life, as I said is similar to anglers I have known (see what anglers such as Mikael Frodin of Sweden, who worked with Guideline company there with his lifetime fishing friend Hakan Norling, has done with his fishing methods for faster moving water). Anglers I know who can no longer pick up fly rods and reels and still do that, can definitely enjoy learning to use a crankbait or plug along with a casting rod and reel set up (and for that reason I forced myself to learn this other system in mid life to become a tutor). This is admirable in so many ways and I approve of it as a method and an approach. But here is the thing.
Lots of pro anglers in competition fishing who don't like what has hapoened to their sport, compare it to baseball and sports where performance enhancement technologies have been employed in the past, which resulted in scandal and shame being brought upon those same sports and their legacy, or history. I remember viewing a television screen when Ben Johnson beat Carl Lewis in the hundred meters sprint race. I actually witnessed that on live television coverage (and the aftermath in the days that followed). It was an Irish journalist Paul Kimmage, I think there is a feature length film made about it. The whole thing that broke about cycling. In bass angling, the pro's who disapprove of over dependency on technology today, compare it to that. Here is the thing.
The analogy is incorrect. Because how Hank Parker describes the use of that technology as an older angler, as I suggested, is like what I see with the Mikael Frodin anglers in fly fishing who cannot stabilize themselves in fast moving water like they once could. And they have metal platforms alongside of rivers that people walk on, to throw casting reels and rods from. To continue to fish in rivers to some extent. If I was to compare it to cycling and the 'Tour de France' competitive cycling sport. It's not like having riders on bicycles who undergo performance enhancement treatment to push longer and harder up hills in races. What target lock on little green bass is like, is having stabilizer wheels on the bicycles, which the competitors are using to compete with.
This is completely gross, but talking about chumming...I went fishing in the river here and snagged onto a bag. When I pulled it up, it was full of tampons. I immediately called the health dept. and the parks dept. I found out that it's well known that people will chum with used tampons, and it is HIGHLY illegal. I've never put a pole in the river since, and that was 10 years ago.
yea absolutely not.. disgusting
Much as I like to catch a fish.. nah