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Cindy Garrison—Beating the Odds
Cindy Garrison, TV host and professional international guide and
angler, has gone where few anglers have gone before—Alaskan fishing
guide, professional tiger fishing guide in Botswana, and
ESPN TV co-host—to name a few.
And she’s sharing her personal stories of angling adventure during
the ICAST Industry Breakfast on Wednesday morning, July 20.
Cindy Garrison discovered her passion for fishing as a toddler casting
into ponds on her grandparent’s Oregon ranch. She honed her fly
fishing skills as a teenager living in the San Francisco
Bay area with her family. It was while in college that she decided she
wanted to be a fishing guide in Alaska, so with her family’s blessing,
she talked her way into a fishing guide job in Alaska and her career
took off from there.
Cindy figured if she could survive that—and survive she did—then
she could accomplish anything she set out to do.
Her
passion for fly fishing developed into her Denver-based company,
Safari Tours, and four years as a fly fishing guide based in Botswana,
Africa. Two years ago, her expertise and love of the sport caught the
eye of ESPN who featured her as a co-host on In Search of
Fly Water.
Cindy
has her own show with EPSN, Get Wild! With Cindy Garrison,
which will begin airing in October 2005.
Cindy
agreed to speak at ICAST’s Industry Breakfast in order to share
her passion for sportfishing and the outdoors. “I just want to
make a difference and get people to feel a little bit of the passion
that I feel.”
