Gadabout Gaddis
 

Gadabout Gaddis - The Flying Fisherman - An American Legend

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he got me hooked on fly fishin when I was kid, along with Curt Gowdy

good stuff.......
 

He was a great sportsman.....I grew up with him...Reading his columns on F&S, OL and sports afield....thanks for the link........:)

He taught me that even adults could fish.

a life lived well ..

YEP

a oldie ,but goodie :uhuh:

He also got me hooked on fly fishing. :)

I grew up watching him in the 1960s. When people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I'd say "A fisherman," and I meant something like Gaddis. I was fishing in Boston and nearby in small ponds, and that just looked so cool.

I actually met him
 

I met him when I was about 7 years old at the old "sportsmans" event in Boston,
About 50 years ago, my brother too, he was about 5 or so. He still remembers. He said hi, shook our hands. He had a cool cowboy hat.

there's an airport in millinocket named after him. love'd his show when i was a kid.

50 years later my dada and I still talk about Gadabout Gaddis like it was yesterday. Good Memories of the Flying Fisherman.

There's never been anything on TV like The Flying Fisherman ever since. Fishing shows today range from pathetic to barely tolerable. The sad thing about Gadabout is that he's totally unknown to those who didn't grow up with his show.

Man I would watch that guy every weekend. He was all the shiz. That and Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom.

Gadabout Gaddis and TIMEX watches. It takes a licking and keeps on Ticking!

Props to Mutual of Omaha. Marlin Perkins was always doing the talking while Jim wrestled the alligators.

He was my brother and I's fishing hero in the very early sixties. I still have my old army gas mask bag which I used to carry my fishing gear in with my childhood handle printed on it, " Billy D the "Roaming fisherman"

The Flying Fisherman, American Sportsman.. My favorites.. Gadabout, Curt Gowdy with Phil Harris and Bing Crosby, and the hunting legend Fred Bear! To bad these young in's didn't get to see these shows...True sportsman

I remember that Gadabout had a commercial on his show offer to send in $1.00 and you got 4 freshwater lures. So I got 4 quarters and taped them on a letter and got a stamp from my mother and sent it off.

When you are 8 you think the lures will come in 2 days. Well it took 6 weeks which seemed like 6 months and I had given up- then the padded envelope showed up. I have such a strong memory of this. One of the lures was just a goldfish, one was a flatfish. With little plastic treble protectors.

I caught some fish with them in summer camp in the Catskills.

Fishing has been good to me.

Actually it was 6 lures. They were all made by the Al's Goldfish lure company, which still exists.