Joe Brooks and Curt Gowdy, the first American Sportsman Show, casting into the wind

Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 12:02AM
El Guapo in Film and Video, Legends, curt gowdy, fly fishing video, joe brooks, legends of fly fishing

A video clip from the very first American Sportsman TV show, 1963 pilot program. It was filmed as a fishing competition between two Argentines, Tito Hosman and Erick Gornick versus two Americans, Joe Brooks and Curt Gowdy on Lago General Paz, Argentina. During a horrific wind storm the fisherman were unable to compete, so Joe gives a casting demonstration… into the wind.

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