EP36 - Erik Guggenheim, An OG Guide/Photographer

Dive Bomb Squadcast

Ashur Tolliver

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 561 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

With the growing influence of social media and the ability to establish oneself as a outdoor media professional, there has never been more hunters capturing waterfowl through the hunt with high quality equipment than we are seeing now. Erik Guggenheim has been heavily invested in waterfowl media for a long time and had a major impact on this explosion of turning waterfowlers not only into guides, but also talented media professionals through his influence at Ranger Creek in Haskell, Texas. We also talk about Guggie's upbringing, graduating from Harvard, his friendship with Tyra Banks, most memorable photographs, and much, much more! Erik is truly one of the most interesting and talented gentlemen in the waterfowl industry.

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0:00.0	This is the Dibomb Squadcast, presented by Dibomb Industries.
0:10.0	Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Dibomb Squadcast. I'm your host, Asher Tulliver. I hope all of you are doing well as we close out another month and make our way into June.
0:23.0	Today, I am joined by one of the most interesting and talented gentlemen in the waterfowl industry.
0:29.5	His name is Mr. Eric Guggenheim, and he is joining me right now on the phone.
0:34.7	Eric, what's up, my man?
0:36.8	Hey, buddy. How are you guys doing today?
0:39.1	I'm doing great, man. I hear you are headed back from Fishing Paradise, also known as
0:47.0	Venice, Louisiana. Looks like you guys had one hell of a trip, got into some serious gator
0:52.3	trout. Tell me about it, man. Man, I'll tell you what. Venice is one of
0:57.0	those places that everybody needs to go to. I mean, we've been going there for years. We have a real
1:03.3	great guide friend or in monitor at sea disguise. She really knows that area and those fish, but the thing is that area is just an
1:14.3	unnaturally bountiful area for fishing.
1:17.7	It's kind of one of those things.
1:19.6	You got to decide, do you want to go for pleasure hanging out of the beach or do you
1:24.0	want to seriously angle?
1:25.4	And if that's your case, Venice louisiana is it i mean it's
1:28.9	the smorgasbord of fishing and my gosh we've never had a day with that many big fish just
1:34.8	just like the fish got to shine down on us that's unbelievable man it looks like you were just
1:40.5	killing like 25 plus inch specs yeah that was that was kind of one of those deals that, you know, we, we had a real bad fog and got out there and kind of got to where we're going. It was kind of a, you know, when you're the third boat in, you're kind of like, I shoot. So we, Mary Caroline hooked up to a nice fish and kind of that anomaly. And like, okay, we're kind of fishing the outskirts where we need to be.
2:03.8	And then it was just like one after another, after another.
2:07.9	And I would say within hour and a half, I think hour and a half are 50 fish when 147 pounds.
2:16.4	Oh my gosh, dude.
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