Fear No Trout
01-26-2010, 11:51 PM
I know it's been a long time since I posted but a lot has happened as far as my personal life and my life within the fishing community. First off, I have been working diligently working to raise the necessary funding for my long awaited documentary film "From Barbed Wire to Barbed Hooks".
Last March 2009 as some you already know, Bart Hall through his generous support gave me a chance to create an exhibit about the "Manazanar Fisherman" at last years Fred Hall Fishing Shows. I want to thank the many thousands of you for stopping by and supporting the project by you interest and donations. I spent 5 days at the Long Beach Convention Center and another 5 days at the Del Mar Show. Some of you came to see me at both venues. The media exposure as the result of being able to display the exhibit at the Fred Hall Show has been nothing short of incredible. Several radio stations had me on as a studio guests, several TV stations including NBC ran a 3 minute news story on network news plus several local stations, and the biggest surprise was this project made the Column One Story on the front page of the L.A. Times on April 24th, 2009. The media exposure was "Off the Chain!!!!"
In my quest for additional funding in July 2009, I was awarded a grant from the National Park Service that was close to $50,000 and my goal of completing this film suddenly became clearly in sight. To date, I am in the editing stages and just completed a rough cut that is two hours long. The goal now is to create a 90 minute film for theatrical release. I just gathered 3 more interviews to flesh out the story of the famous "Golden" trout fisherman named "Ishikawa".
Below is a unseen photograph that was given to me by my good friend Phil Pister from Bishop. Phil is a renown DFG biologist who spent most of his career dealing with the indigenous fish and other species that surround the Owens Valley and the Eastern Sierra. The photograph is that of the Colorado River Cutthroat trout that was planted on the other side of Mt. Williamson behind Manzanar by the Calif. DFG back in 1931 and were hiked in by foot and hauled in by mules. Then painstakingly placed in backpacks and carried the rest of the way by biologist to 3 lakes in what is known as the Williamson Basin. The Manzanar internees would sneak out from the barbed wire fences and scale a 12,000' pass and catch what they thought were Golden trout. Little did the know at the time they were actually catching a specie of trout even more rare that was found only in Colorado.
Even though this film is taking a longer to finish than I anticipated all the hard work and patience in making this project will be worth the wait.
Last March 2009 as some you already know, Bart Hall through his generous support gave me a chance to create an exhibit about the "Manazanar Fisherman" at last years Fred Hall Fishing Shows. I want to thank the many thousands of you for stopping by and supporting the project by you interest and donations. I spent 5 days at the Long Beach Convention Center and another 5 days at the Del Mar Show. Some of you came to see me at both venues. The media exposure as the result of being able to display the exhibit at the Fred Hall Show has been nothing short of incredible. Several radio stations had me on as a studio guests, several TV stations including NBC ran a 3 minute news story on network news plus several local stations, and the biggest surprise was this project made the Column One Story on the front page of the L.A. Times on April 24th, 2009. The media exposure was "Off the Chain!!!!"
In my quest for additional funding in July 2009, I was awarded a grant from the National Park Service that was close to $50,000 and my goal of completing this film suddenly became clearly in sight. To date, I am in the editing stages and just completed a rough cut that is two hours long. The goal now is to create a 90 minute film for theatrical release. I just gathered 3 more interviews to flesh out the story of the famous "Golden" trout fisherman named "Ishikawa".
Below is a unseen photograph that was given to me by my good friend Phil Pister from Bishop. Phil is a renown DFG biologist who spent most of his career dealing with the indigenous fish and other species that surround the Owens Valley and the Eastern Sierra. The photograph is that of the Colorado River Cutthroat trout that was planted on the other side of Mt. Williamson behind Manzanar by the Calif. DFG back in 1931 and were hiked in by foot and hauled in by mules. Then painstakingly placed in backpacks and carried the rest of the way by biologist to 3 lakes in what is known as the Williamson Basin. The Manzanar internees would sneak out from the barbed wire fences and scale a 12,000' pass and catch what they thought were Golden trout. Little did the know at the time they were actually catching a specie of trout even more rare that was found only in Colorado.
Even though this film is taking a longer to finish than I anticipated all the hard work and patience in making this project will be worth the wait.