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12-03-2010, 11:56 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
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Gadabout Gaddis
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Live at Leeds
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12-04-2010, 12:06 AM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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he got me hooked on fly fishin when I was kid, along with Curt Gowdy
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12-04-2010, 03:07 AM
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zziplex lover
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: upper cape cod, MA
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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........  |
Lobster Troll #1
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12-04-2010, 06:39 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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He taught me that even adults could fish.
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12-04-2010, 06:52 AM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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a life lived well ..
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Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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12-04-2010, 07:24 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Warwick RI,02889
Posts: 11,786
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YEP
a oldie ,but goodie  |
ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE !!!
MIKE
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12-04-2010, 07:53 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Gloucester Massachusetts
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He also got me hooked on fly fishing. |
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12-04-2010, 06:09 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Dedham MA
Posts: 98
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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.
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12-04-2010, 07:47 PM
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Wishin' for fishin'
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Brockton
Posts: 1,651
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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.
Last edited by striprman; 12-04-2010 at 07:58 PM..
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12-04-2010, 08:52 PM
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Afterhours Custom Plugs
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: R.I.
Posts: 8,642
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there's an airport in millinocket named after him. love'd his show when i was a kid.
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12-04-2010, 10:45 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Pocasset, MA
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50 years later my dada and I still talk about Gadabout Gaddis like it was yesterday. Good Memories of the Flying Fisherman.
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Hardcore from shore
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12-04-2010, 11:37 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 46
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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.
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12-05-2010, 12:20 AM
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Captain Pete
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: CT
Posts: 936
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Man I would watch that guy every weekend. He was all the shiz. That and Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom.
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12-07-2010, 04:01 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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Gadabout Gaddis and TIMEX watches. It takes a licking and keeps on Ticking!
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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12-07-2010, 04:08 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Dedham MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pmueller
Man I would watch that guy every weekend. He was all the shiz. That and Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom.
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Props to Mutual of Omaha. Marlin Perkins was always doing the talking while Jim wrestled the alligators. |
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12-08-2010, 10:31 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: North Branford,Ct.
Posts: 7,655
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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"
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Billy D.
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12-08-2010, 10:42 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: S. Jersey Shore
Posts: 912
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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
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 "The lips stand out because she wants to suck on your Pikie."....Mike Laptew
Van Staal Service/Repair Technician
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12-09-2010, 07:03 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: orange ct
Posts: 2,992
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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.
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12-09-2010, 11:08 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 46
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Actually it was 6 lures. They were all made by the Al's Goldfish lure company, which still exists.
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