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About Grizzly Gary

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When the Win Your Own Fishing Show contest came to Warren, Pennsylvania, Gary Wert’s friends told him he had to enter. "You’re a kook. You’d be perfect for it," they told him.

He had experience in front of the camera, shilling in TV commercials for the auto dealership group where he works in customer relations and sales training.

But work is something he does to feed his fishing addiction. Even on the day he was going to audition before our camera, he had to fish first. "I knew the folks from The Outdoor Channel would be there until 5 PM so I wasn’t planning on showing up until 4." He headed to his favorite spot, the Kinzua Dam area of the Allegheny Reservoir, around 2 PM and started hooking into the walleye, northern pike and catfish that abound there.

Gary is not an angler who dreams of exotic destinations. To him, paradise is a 15-minute boat ride from his house. "My real goal is to get folks to come here and promote my own home town," he said.

He’s active in the Kinzua Allegheny Walleye Association and in organizing its annual Disabled Veterans Benefit tournament.

He has gotten quite a bit of attention already. He has been on the front page of several local newspapers and on the local television news. The front page of the Kinzua Allegheny Walleye Association’s Web site urges visitors to view Gary’s video and vote for him.

His fishing obsession started early, when he was four or five years old and went fishing with his brothers. A few years later, the boys would hop on the streetcars in Pittsburgh with their rods and tackle and head out the local rivers. "We caught mostly carp and catfish," he said. "Back then, the rivers were dirty and you didn’t get the walleye you do now."

When he is not on the water, he is watching his favorite fishing shows on The Outdoor Channel: Winkelman's Good Fishing, Fishing With Shelly and Courtney, Ronnie Kovach’s Fishing Ventures and Angler on Tour.

This summer, Gary filmed his episode with Outdoor Channel camera crews. His show, Gary's Goin' Fishing aired in August [2004].