The Rodeo Travel Bag by Fishpond
Wild Fish Wild Places 08.24.12
Throughout the last 15 months the Wild Fish Wild Places team has traveled to 10 different countries on over 80 separate flights. To say that we have had our fair share of travel would be a slight understatement! Throughout our rigorous filming schedule the team comes across gear that is worth telling our fans about, good or bad. In this situation we would like to share one of the best travel products we have come across to date.
The company is Fishpond and the product is their Rodeo Travel Bag. This travel bag has built-in rolling wheels, extendable handle, custom bottom compartment with neoprene liner (great for keeping my fishing gear separate), and tons of usable space. This bag has been beaten up by the luggage carriers on every flight and still the only sign of wear is being dirty! I have zip- tied rod tubes to its side, wheeled it across the muddy banks of the Rio Negro and watched the airline luggage handler toss it like it was an old rag. This travel bag we recommend to all of our friends, family and fans that are looking for a great travel bag. The Rodeo by Fishpond is hands down the best travel bag on the market!
FISH AND FISHING. TWO WORDS HAVING A MYRIAD OF MEANINGS TO A MYRIAD OF PEOPLES. TO FISH FOR FOOD, FOR LIFE, FOR SURVIVAL; OR TO FISH FOR FUN, FOR SPORT, FOR MONEY.
When, almost 5,000 years ago in China, man first attached a hook and line to a bamboo rod to catch carp a little further from the river’s edge, little did he know that this creation would evolve into an industry which at the early part of this, the twenty-first century, is worth over $108 billion annually to the US economy in terms of sport fishing alone!
The variety of fish species is infinite. From cold water inhabitants such as members of the Salmonidae family, to warm water, tropical dwellers like the Cichlids. From the gigantic Tarpon of the Florida Keys to the gentler Arctic Charr spectacularly attired in their vivid courtship colors in the frigid rivers and streams of the arctic tundra. Take the celebrated Coelacanth, over three hundred million years old and still found today in the warm seas of the Indian Ocean around Madagascar, or the seemingly ubiquitous Golden Orfe, or the goldfish, which completes endless circuits in so many glass bowls in family homes in every corner of the world.
In this series, we will seek out great predatory fish. Fish that are much revered, fish that strike terror at the very mention of their name and fish that are the staple diet of many peoples subsisting along the shorelines and riverbanks of the great waters we will visit during our odyssey. Positioned at the very top of the food chain, these apex predators reign supreme in their own domain, be it mighty river, great lake or ocean.
Our quest will take us across cultures and continents to exotic locations of immense beauty and wealth as well as lands poleaxed by poverty. We will explore not just these wild and wonderful places, but the significance of our target species to the different groupings of peoples in terms of social, economic and cultural values.
Our travels in search of extraordinary predators will take us from the cold, unforgiving waters of the West of Ireland to the steaming jungle swamps of India. From the frozen, pristine wilderness of the Canadian subarctic to the sun-baked backwaters of Northern Australia. This will be a series of contrasts and comparisons where we will meet people who live to fish and people who fish to live.
