The six-foot, 205-pound Begelton is in his fifth season with Calgary, having registered 172 catches for 2,529 yards and 14 touchdowns in 39 career regular-season games. "I put a lure on it just to see if it worked and the first cast is when I hooked that drum and I remember thinking, 'Oh, I think she still works.' I actually have video of it." "You could tell they'd just lost it because it hadn't corroded or anything like that. "We were fishing and hooked on to someone's rod and reel setup," Begelton said with a chuckle. Not surprisingly, there's a story that goes along with it. I was like, 'This is not what I really wanted to do,' but at least I got to knock a species off my list."īegelton said the biggest fish he's caught was a black drum, a saltwater species, that measured 56 inches. "We actually trolled with worms fishing for walleyes (at McGregor Lake) and it was very anticlimactic for me.
#Hapu upu fish how to
Once I did that and learned how to entice fish, I've never gone back to bait," he said. "When I got to college (Lamar University), I'd go after practice or class and I picked up fishing artificial baits. "When I was kid, it was mostly put a shrimp on and see whatever bit."īegelton said he switched to live bait and started targeting different species once he started fishing with his dad.
"I had a stringer of fish and I was maybe six, seven years old. "I have pictures from one of the first times I went fishing," he said. The whole purpose is active therapy, that's how I like to put it."īegelton's fishing passion began while growing up in Beaumont, Texas. "If I have a great day, then that just makes it more exhilarating. "I go with no expectations so even if I have a bad day, I'm just happy to be out there. "It gives me a therapeutic out from the real world," Begelton said. Next week, when the Stampeders are off again, he's hoping to hook some trout on Bow River, roughly 37 kilometres south of the city. Two weeks ago, during the team's bye, Begelton fished for walleyes at McGregor Lake about 173 kilometres southeast of Calgary.
When the Calgary Stampeders' star is away from the field, he likes being on water and chasing whatever swims. He's one of the CFL's top receivers, but Reggie Begelton can catch more than just footballs.
0 kommentar(er)
