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The Mad Fisherman: Kick Some Bass with America's Wildest TV Host

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"Charlie Moore is my American blood brother in the spirit of the wild, celebrating the joys and purity of hands-on conservation. The boy knows how to live! Rock on, Mad Fish."---Ted Nugent

"Charlie Moore is a passionate, entertaining personality who makes a sport into not just a great hobby but a heck of a lot of fun. Charlie Moore is the real deal as an American Fisherman."--Jim Calhoun, Basketball Hall of Famer and Two-Time National Champion Collegiate Coach of the University of Connecticut Huskies

"I don't know what's crazier: playing all over the world with Lynyrd Skynyrd or doing a TV show with Charlie Moore! I do know I love the guy like a brother."--Rickey Medlocke, lead guitarist of Lynyrd Skynryd

"A good old success story related with charm and humor."--Booklist

Charlie Moore was married with two kids (and one on the way) when his Massachusetts bait-and-tackle shop sank without a trace. A skilled fisherman and a savvy entrepreneur trained in his father's cigar shop, Charlie decided to support his family by starring on his own TV fishing show.

After all, the ones playing on the TV in Charlie's shop all day had one thing in common: they were dull. As a rule, people called Charlie many things, but never, ever dull. In fact, when he told friends about his television idea, they called him crazy.

Today, everyone calls him the Mad Fisherman.

The Mad Fisherman is the incredible story of how Charlie cold-called his way into doing short spots for no money for a regional outdoors show while working odd jobs to pay for diapers. When the TV station refused to pay up once the show was a hit, he hooked show sponsors himself, turning Charlie Moore Outdoors into a profitable enterprise.

Charlie's success opened doors at ESPN and gave birth to the groundbreaking Beat Charlie Moore, an entirely new kind of outdoors show on which Charlie goes mano y mano with pro fishermen and celebrities alike. Charlie's very competitive, but he still pays more attention to amusing his audience than beating his competitors. But he usually does both, anyway.

Guest fishermen on Charlie's boat have included NFL quarterback Drew Bledsoe, Massachusetts governor and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney (who waterskiied off the back of Charlie's boat), Rickey Medlocke of Lynyrd Skynyrd, UConn basketball coach Jim Calhoun, Ted Nugent, Adam West (TV's Batman), and Darryl McDaniels of Run-DMC. No matter how famous they are on dry land, they turn into ordinary guys when Charlie hands them a fishing pole. Well, except Ted Nugent.

With unflagging energy, a wild sense of humor, and a sheer love of the outdoors, Charlie Moore entertains and amuses a million and a half people every week.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
The host of ESPN's popular Beat Charlie Moore show--in which he bets his own money in one-on-one fishing duels against pros and amateurs alike--tries to transfer his wild man persona to the printed page, with mixed results. The first few chapters, on his youth, marriage, and failed attempt to run a bait-and-tackle shop, make slow going, and his look at how he went from local to national stardom is marred by abrupt tangents in which he thanks various network and corporate sponsors. The pace speeds up when Moore provides a behind-the-scenes look at various shows; he has plenty of great stories about such celebrity guests as rock guitarist Ted Nugent, sports legend Bobby Orr, rapper Darryl McDaniels of Run-DMC and Batman star Adam West. But Moore doesn't provide much beyond what was caught on camera: his comment that Ted is crazy doesn't illuminate the episode in which Nugent fired a nine millimeter into his own pond to get enough fish to win the competition. Moore is upfront about wanting to be more along the lines of a Tim Allen driving the show, and it is clear that he succeeded on TV. But he doesn't capture his Mad Fisherman persona on the page. (Apr.)Copyright (c) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

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Bio of Charlie Moore

Charlie Moore hosts Charlie Moore Outdoors and Beat Charlie Moore, two top-rated outdoor shows on ESPN2 and NESN (New England Sports Network). Between the two shows, Charlie reaches almost one and a half million households per week and has won two New England Emmy Awards for Best Sports Series.

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Imprint

St. Martin's Press

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2.41 MB

Number of Pages

240

eBook ISBN

9781429934633

Excerpt from: The Mad Fisherman by Charlie Moore

Introduction

I'm nervous today. Very nervous. And that's not like me. I never get nervous. Ever.

But tonight is different. Tonight I'm going to the Boston Garden. Sure, I've been to the Garden before. Lots of times. But tonight's a different story. Tonight, I'm going in a stretch limousine, one of six filled with twenty-five people in all. But first, all twenty-five of us are having dinner at Morton's Steakhouse, one of my all-time favorite restaurants. My friend, Ernie Boch Jr., who owns a bunch of car dealerships, will be there. Yes, I'll be getting a Ferrari soon. Ernie, expect a call. Chuck Clement, owner of Eastern Propane and Oil, will be there, as will George Carey, owner of Finz Restaurant, Paul Riley, from Post Woodworking Sheds, and the whole Aubuchon Hardware family--Aubuchon is the title sponsor of my show. And, of course, my entire family. Wouldn't want to forget them.

Tonight is different. I'm being honored at the Boston Garden, home of the Boston Celtics and the Boston Bruins. Tonight, between periods of the hockey game--Go Bruins!--I'm being inducted into the New England Sports Museum in a program called "Gone Fishing: New England's Famous Outdoorsmen." I'm going to be inducted along with Curt Gowdy and Ted Williams. Can you believe it? Me. Charlie Moore. The Mad Fisherman. My name is going to be spoken in the same breath as Curt Gowdy, one of the greatest sports announcers of all time, and Ted Williams . . . I don't have to tell you who Ted Williams is, do I? Does the last .400 hitter in baseball ring a bell?

No wonder I'm nervous. As much as I have an ego--and you don't need a magnifying glass to find it--I'm still very grounded. I don't take myself too seriously. But this, well, this is . . . serious.

As you can probably tell by now, tonight is a very big deal for me. Curt Gowdy Jr. will be there, as well as a representative for Ted Williams. And then there's my family: my wife, Angela, my three kids, Anthony, Nikolas, and Kaitlin, and all the people who helped make my shows--Charlie Moore Outdoors and Beat Charlie Moore--wildly successful. Bob Sylvester, my producer, who had a big part in working with Dick Johnson from the Sports Museum, will be there, too.

It's been twelve years since I started down this road, but I feel like my career is just beginning. I'm looking forward to the next twelve years which, believe me, are going to be even better than the first ones. But, as for tonight, I told them I wanted the ceremony to be short. Very short. I don't want this to be a long, drawn-out affair. My stomach couldn't take it.

I, Charlie Moore, will be honored in the Boston Garden. How could I possibly have imagined all this twelve years ago, when I was dead broke, married with two kids and another on the way, and living in my in-laws' house? Well, I probably did imagine it. But it was just a dream, then. Tonight, it's going to be a reality.

I'm not one for reminiscing about milestones. Heck, I don't think I've accomplished anything near what I'm going to before I'm done. It's great to look back and think, "Hey, that was terrific," but that's not what I'm all about. I love what I do. I know what I have. I know who I am. I know what's important to me.

But how did I get here? How did I get to the point where all these people are going to be in the stands applauding as I join the ranks of the true immortals?

And so, while there's still nobody else around, while I'm waiting nervously for tonight's ceremony, I'll light up an Avo, my favorite brand of cigar, and I'll think about my life and my show, where I've been, how I got there, and where I'm going.

Sit back, my friends, because we're headed over choppy waters . . .