You’ll find more than just fishing celebrities in this list. One can make a significant impact
on the lives of many without ever being well known. It is important to honor all of
those who had a great influence on the great sport of fishing, whether famous or not.
Corporate advances tend to be much more visible to us. For it’s their products that
shape the evolution of the sport of fishing.
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Doug Stange
Inducted 2017
Doug Stange is the Editor-‐in-‐Chief of many InterMedia Outdoors publications including In-‐Fisherman and Walleye In-‐Sider magazines; he also oversees the In-‐ Fisherman series of annual guides; Walleye, Bass, Catfish, Ice Fishing, Pike-‐Muskie, Panfish, and Gear Guides.
Doug has been contributor to the In-‐Fisherman magazine since 1977, and a staff member since 1981. Doug is one of North America’s most accomplished multi-‐ species anglers. In his tenure with In-‐Fisherman has written about almost every aspect of freshwater fishing.
Doug is also the host of In-‐Fisherman TV, one of the most watched programs in all outdoors for more than 30 years. The show format is a by-‐product of the widely popular In-‐Fisherman magazine, which focuses on the pursuit of everything that swims in freshwater and near-‐shore coastal waters.
Along being a TV host and Editor-‐in-‐Chief, Doug has found time to author/co-‐author numerous In-‐Fisherman series of books, including: the Critical Concept 1 & 2 series and Ice Fishing Secrets.
With Doug’s years of dedication and commitment to the sport fishing industry, he has won many awards including; the “Conservation Achievement” citation from the American Fisheries Society, where he has been a member for more that 35 years.
And in 2008, he was inducted into the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame as a “Legendary Communicator.”
