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Outdoornews
March 7, 2021
It was 35 years ago that I was hired by Niagara County to start up a brand-new program. I was brought in to serve as the county’s Sportfishing Promotion Program Coordinator. Yes, it was a mouthful to say. To shorten it up, Town of Newfane Supervisor Tim Horanburg would simply call me the “Fish Head.” Sometimes it would “Head Fish.” Either way, it was to create a program in the Niagara County Tourism office that would focus on the area’s angling resources.
In the early years, it was focused on running the county’s two big fishing events – the Lake Ontario Pro-Am Salmon Team Tournament out of Wilson and Olcott, as well as the Niagara County Fall Classic Fishing Derby. Both needed a point person and that became me by default. I needed all the help I could get from the Niagara County Fisheries Development Board and the Niagara County Derby Board, two boards I became intimately involved with.