EP. 327 Part One: Surf Fishing Essentials with Fishin' Girl Cathy Sanders

Cathy Sanders is the founder of Fishin' Girl, a company dedicated to gathering women who love fishing and want to enjoy it together. She is also a beach surf-fishing guide in Northeast Florida.
Cathy grew up loving fishing her whole life. Not having any family members who fished, she only had rare occasions to get out on the water and learn fishing techniques without the convenience of YouTube and the Internet. She has fond memories of catching tons of goldfish and catfish from local ponds and bringing them home to create a labyrinth of tunnels for them to swim through in a kiddie pool in the backyard. Later she remembers fishing offshoots of Onondaga Lake in Syracuse, New York (a polluted lake that has since been cleaned up) and catching lots of little bluegill from worms she dug up or found on the driveway after it rained.
Fast-forward to college, where she met her husband, Andy, and they would go fishing all the time in Springfield, Missouri, either for bass and bluegill or at night with lighted bobbers to find catfish to reel in. Upon graduation, they served as ministers and pastors in various churches, then later traveled with their two children across the country as evangelists. During this time, hobbies were put aside, including fishing apary from a few rare fishing trips to the Erie Canal to catch northern pike or up in the Thousand Islands with friends, catching whatever was biting. In their many travels, Cathy would see ponds, lakes, or streams and look at them wistfully, missing the tug of a fish on the line, while Andy thought it was a mostly a … Read More