A Gillespie clone?

I feel like IDO and Lindy Fish Ed do the best job of providing instructional throughout the whole ordeal, such as pulling the bait out of the fish, releasing the fish, then holding up that bait and talking about it, how to fish it, where to hook it if it’s live bait. Gillespie has grown on me over the years. I still can learn from that show but it’s more social entertainment to me.

One thing that I credit IDO and Gillespie with is being current. They both film shows that week (or close to it) so the weather conditions, water temps, etc. are applicable to what you want to go out and do now. I’m not a fan of seeing a show in Nov/Dec that was filmed last March where they’re talking about late ice.

super_do wrote:

Anybody see that show when Gillespie was screaming “get the Frabill, get the Frabill” and the guide slapped him and told him “to snap out of it”. Pete Mania and the guide about wet their pants laughing. It was hilarious!!!!!

Super Do, You mean this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-tqy203bIc

If you think some fishing shows are bad just watch one of the hundreds of hunting shows locally and nationally. Guy shoots a deer and he’s taking a picture of the buck and him and surrounding them is his treestand, bow or gun, grunt call, backpack, plastic rattling antlers, trail camera, three different hats, unopened package of broad heads, etc… and explaining each one and how he couldn’t of killed the deer without each and every product.

That’s the one!

Donald Trump could host a fishing show and call it “Making fishing great again”.

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“Check out Aaron Wiebe’s Uncut Angling (youtube channel), great fishing knowledge, lots of humor (some of it is over the top MTV Jackass style) but very few advertisement’s other than the typical “This is what i’m using” stuff…
The show where he pulls tail hair off a dead Deer along the roadside and in minutes strings up a crappie jig and slays them is one of my favorite episodes…Here’s that episode – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7nyruQoGyA”

I would love to see Uncut Angling be on more consistently. In Depth, Angling Edge, and Uncut, understand the balance of sponsorship and promoting the sport of fishing.

Fehler wrote:

The biggest difference between shows I go out of my way to watch and shows I’ll watch if I find them to be on, is I want to walk away feeling like I learned something new about fishing. That is where I have found IDO Fishing and Uncut Angling to bet a step above the rest.

I think it would be SO fun(read: entertaining as heck) to see a James Holst/Aaron Wiebe episode. I wouldn’t care a bit if it was in some Manitoba water that I’ll never get to, I would watch it.
EVERYONE does product placement today, some less annoyingly than others…but at least with these two I learn things about techniques and presentations that I can apply to my own waters with my own “non-sponsored” tackle-or theirs. That makes all the difference for me.

If you watch the early episodes of any fishing show they are truly trying to help the angler. As that gains them popularity that earns them their sponsors and the show turns into a commercial. Since I watch them all I have more lures and bait than 10 people need. Many still try to demonstrate strategy and techniques but obviously they are well prepared to be on fish with local guides or prostaff whether they show them or not or advertise their business(networking but not feasible or doable for the weekend warrior). The worst is when these good shows become watch me bucket list trophy fish this lake. Don’t mind me though just a jealous hater that still watches.

Gillespie has been on since I was a kid, so he must be doing something right. As much as he can be ‘over the top’, he does take the time to show presentations and techniques.

Some shows are nothing more than an infomercial (as has been stated many times in this thread).

Agreed. Love IDO and the new format to both highlight products, and show more in-depth planning that everyone does, but rarely talk about.
Gillespie, yeah. Get tired of him pushing people out of the way, or telling someone repeatedly to hold it up for the camera before they even have a hand on the fish, but he is current, he fishes local waters I can go to, and he always asks the people he is with to explain what they are doing, not always me, me me.