EP73: Urban Fishing "The Brooklyn Fishing Club"
Salt Strong Fishing
Joe Simonds
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we talk with Victor Lucia, the founder of the Brooklyn Fishing Club, to talk about the explosive growth and popularity of urban fishing. From having to carry your fishing rods through the subway, to hairy situations in the East River, to turf wars... this is an episode you don't want to miss.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Fish Strong Podcast! Disrupting Fishing Entertainment, as you know it, prepare |
| 0:10.9 | to laugh, prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way, and |
| 0:16.3 | on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing. Here are your hosts, |
| 0:21.0 | Joe and Luke Simons. |
| 0:23.0 | Hello, Salt Strong and Fish Strong Nation, Joe Simons back. Another episode I think this |
| 0:28.4 | is 7475. I'm losing track, and this is going to be a really, really good one. I've been |
| 0:37.7 | following all kinds of different little fishing clubs, and every time I see a new one, I |
| 0:42.3 | check it out, because I'm curious about it. I love fishing clubs, and we have our own |
| 0:45.8 | little community here too, and I love it to see what other people are doing. And someone |
| 0:49.7 | recently on Instagram had tagged Brooklyn Fishing Club, and I was like, never heard of Brooklyn |
| 0:54.6 | Fishing Club, and I clicked on it. They have tens of thousands of followers, like a legit |
| 0:59.4 | Instagram page, like, what the heck? They're having them to heard of this thing, and then |
| 1:03.6 | I went and checked out the site, and watched the video, and I was like, holy smokes. This |
| 1:08.6 | is like urban fishing on steroids. This guy, Victor, we're about to have on, is walking |
| 1:13.7 | through the subway. It was fishing ride, a little tackle box, and I'm like, all right, |
| 1:17.9 | I've got to talk to this guy, so I reached out to him, and here we are. Victor, welcome |
| 1:22.5 | brother. Hey, thanks for having me, man. I appreciate it. Yeah, so before we get into |
| 1:27.8 | all this, what's your history? What's the background? How did all of a sudden you go from |
| 1:33.9 | being some guy in New York to having a Brooklyn Fishing Club with the urban fishermen? |
| 1:39.4 | Well, I started out fishing at a very young age. Both my grandfather's were really into |
| 1:47.3 | it, so whether I was hanging out with either them, we were usually fishing if the weather |
| 1:53.1 | permitted it. I fished a lot in a long island sound as a kid, down the New Jersey shore, |
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