I met Greg Myerson while I was the President of the Plum Island Surfacaters. Greg and I have a lot of things in common. He played college football. I played high school football. He is a licensed Electrician. I studied electricity at my first high school. He started fishing at an early age for fun. I stared fishing at an early age for food. He bought his first boat with money he raised from trapping. I bought my first bicycle with money I raised from recycling cans. In 2011 he caught an 80+ lb striped bass. In 2011 I caught an 8+ lb striped bass. After reading “Born to Fish”, I know why he and I connected and understood each other without explanation.
Grey Myerson knew from a very early age what he wanted to do: fish. When he was just ten years old, he caught a 50 lb striped bass. In 2010, he caught 3 striped bass over 60 pounds. On August 11, 2011, he caught an 81.88 lb striped bass just after sunset while drifting an eel on a 3-way rig with a RattleSinker at dead high tide (slack outgoing). In 2013 while fishing with his cousin, he caught a 75 lb striped bass, which he harvested after it died during the fight. On the same night, he caught a fish that bottomed out a scaled rated for 90 lbs; he measured it’s length, girth, and calculated its weight to be 106 pounds! He released this fish without hesitation.
Greg’s life path is not ordinary. He overcame significant challenges in his life. These challenges are what propel him to catch the world record striped bass, invent a product that is revolutionizing the fishing industry, and win a deal on Shark Tank. Greg Myerson is an outlier!
Tim Gallagher’s words captures Greg Myerson the man and Greg Myerson the angler. I am a better person and angler for having read Born to Fish.
