Incredible show. Living Legends is a term that is often over used, but this episode nailed it. Mr. Dance and Mr. Parker are truly giants. Love the stories and the obvious genuine respect these two have for one another.
Oh and I dont know about the new ranger boats but older ones was built to last there like tanks alot of 30 and 40 year old rangers still on The water ....forrest wood didn't put junk out there
thank you for this and i really enjoy hearing two men expressing actual love for eachother as men we all need to tell our friends we love them every chance we get because throughout bill’s stories one thing is clear your friends are not going to be around forever one time is going to be the last communicate LOVE
The Good Lord works in mysterious ways and by now we should all be trusting Him fully and wholeheartedly just out of habit because hHe has been so faithful. Much respect to you seasoned veterans of life. Great stories gentlemen!
This was for sure an important chapter in the history record of game fishing for the green fish and bronze one, in the lakes and the rivers of north America (I grew up reading the literature about early game fishing pursuits in Britain and Ireland, for silver colored fish like trout or salmon, which reached back further in time). That history contained stories of individuals like Jock Scott, who was an orphan you grew up belonging to a hunting and fishing estate in Scotland, and became adopted kind of by that institution where he earned a living as a servant for the rest of his lifetime. Lee Wulff in north America would have been part of the lineage of folks in fishing, who learned from Jock Scott. Remembering that angler upon his death (at a time at which the nineteenth century turned into the early twentieth one), that Jock Scott was one of the Mount Rushmore figures in that lineage. Bobby Jones of Georgia was around people who trout fished in the American south whom Lee Wulff would have known (Bobby himself as well as being a golfer and sports person who competed in America and Europe, also enjoyed his bass angling). And Ray Scott of Alabama and graduate of a famous university of that region, had intersected with all of this tradition at the time too (Lee Wulff and the Catskill school of upper State of New York had a key relationship to the south through saltwater tournament fishing in Carolina and Florida environments). That's where Joan Wulff met Lee at a stage too. Roland Martin later owned the property on the water front in Florida where those trout and salmon anglers fished from. It's a very strange and interwoven history, which Bill Dance has referred to, which goes all of the way back to the earliest times in Britain and Ireland. A lot of that history is lost.
The focus of Lee Wulff as an angler early on was on the Brook trout, a native American salmonoid species that was fished to almost extinction in States such as Pennslyvania. Into which the Alpine European brown trout from the upper Rhine river habitat was introduced into Pennsylvania in north America. During the Depression era projects for re-construction and habitat restoration, or alteration (Pickwick lake etc resulted from electrification and the early power grid in the south), the brown trout of German Bavaria made it's way into Georgia. In the same way as it did into the Ozarks and White river system at a point also, more recently as far as States like Oklahoma too. David Whitlock who passed away very lately in Oklahoma operated his bass fishing school in that part of the world, and lots of Dave's early inspiration on the trout fishing lure side came from New Zealand. Another habitat into which the European brown trout had been introduced. David was one of the modern day equivalents of folks that Bobby Jones growing up in the south way back would have known (in the British history and tradition, golfing and fishing went together hand in hand). And that is why this habitat restoration thing became important to these golfers in early times in America. And you find that is a later component in the outlook and attitude of one Ray Scott individual too, who borrows many of his ideas from that other European tradition. Which manages to extend over to north America. That's what the Bassmaster Classic concept is, it's an idea taken from other sporting contexts that was re-tooled and re-used for the purposes of the north American game fish angler and conservationist.
You two back in the day on TNN taught me so much. Much respect!!
I really appreciate the people I grew up with watching on tv my hero’s will get together and have a good honest conversation thank you both !!!
Thank you so much for this Hank!!!
Thank you hank an bill for all you've done for the sport I love so much ....an this great show best one ive saw in a long time
The best thing ever! Can’t tell you how much I enjoyed this. Two tremendous legends right there!
Hank parker and Bill dance
Just can't get any better. Grew up watching these guys..
So many memories of Bill Dance and all that he has taught me and others.
I’d love to meet you and Bill, been watching since I was a kid, someday I will before I die! Love you man!
2 of the greatest. Hopefully one day I'll get to fulfill a dream and meet the both of you.
I love Bill Dance, whata guy!
Incredible show. Living Legends is a term that is often over used, but this episode nailed it. Mr. Dance and Mr. Parker are truly giants. Love the stories and the obvious genuine respect these two have for one another.
Dang 2 legends on the same show ??awesome !!!
Oh and I dont know about the new ranger boats but older ones was built to last there like tanks alot of 30 and 40 year old rangers still on The water ....forrest wood didn't put junk out there
You guys have officially made my day! My 2 favorite fisherman on a podcast, love it! lol
Outstanding Show, WOW 😮
Thank you again enjoyed the listen
thank you for this and i really enjoy hearing two men expressing actual love for eachother as men we all need to tell our friends we love them every chance we get because throughout bill’s stories one thing is clear your friends are not going to be around forever one time is going to be the last
communicate LOVE
The Good Lord works in mysterious ways and by now we should all be trusting Him fully and wholeheartedly just out of habit because hHe has been so faithful. Much respect to you seasoned veterans of life. Great stories gentlemen!
Just saw that you fell while working on tree stands earlier this week. Praying for your quick healing 🙏🙏🙏
Miss Hank and Dale on Norman
Every time I think I've heard or read Every story yall come up with another one
This was for sure an important chapter in the history record of game fishing for the green fish and bronze one, in the lakes and the rivers of north America (I grew up reading the literature about early game fishing pursuits in Britain and Ireland, for silver colored fish like trout or salmon, which reached back further in time). That history contained stories of individuals like Jock Scott, who was an orphan you grew up belonging to a hunting and fishing estate in Scotland, and became adopted kind of by that institution where he earned a living as a servant for the rest of his lifetime. Lee Wulff in north America would have been part of the lineage of folks in fishing, who learned from Jock Scott. Remembering that angler upon his death (at a time at which the nineteenth century turned into the early twentieth one), that Jock Scott was one of the Mount Rushmore figures in that lineage. Bobby Jones of Georgia was around people who trout fished in the American south whom Lee Wulff would have known (Bobby himself as well as being a golfer and sports person who competed in America and Europe, also enjoyed his bass angling). And Ray Scott of Alabama and graduate of a famous university of that region, had intersected with all of this tradition at the time too (Lee Wulff and the Catskill school of upper State of New York had a key relationship to the south through saltwater tournament fishing in Carolina and Florida environments). That's where Joan Wulff met Lee at a stage too. Roland Martin later owned the property on the water front in Florida where those trout and salmon anglers fished from. It's a very strange and interwoven history, which Bill Dance has referred to, which goes all of the way back to the earliest times in Britain and Ireland. A lot of that history is lost.
The focus of Lee Wulff as an angler early on was on the Brook trout, a native American salmonoid species that was fished to almost extinction in States such as Pennslyvania. Into which the Alpine European brown trout from the upper Rhine river habitat was introduced into Pennsylvania in north America. During the Depression era projects for re-construction and habitat restoration, or alteration (Pickwick lake etc resulted from electrification and the early power grid in the south), the brown trout of German Bavaria made it's way into Georgia. In the same way as it did into the Ozarks and White river system at a point also, more recently as far as States like Oklahoma too. David Whitlock who passed away very lately in Oklahoma operated his bass fishing school in that part of the world, and lots of Dave's early inspiration on the trout fishing lure side came from New Zealand. Another habitat into which the European brown trout had been introduced. David was one of the modern day equivalents of folks that Bobby Jones growing up in the south way back would have known (in the British history and tradition, golfing and fishing went together hand in hand). And that is why this habitat restoration thing became important to these golfers in early times in America. And you find that is a later component in the outlook and attitude of one Ray Scott individual too, who borrows many of his ideas from that other European tradition. Which manages to extend over to north America. That's what the Bassmaster Classic concept is, it's an idea taken from other sporting contexts that was re-tooled and re-used for the purposes of the north American game fish angler and conservationist.
Great listen
Please please get al Linder on
Mike
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