Getting hooked – Ontario OUT of DOORS

Get Hooked The Sequence

Selecting up a brand new interest is thrilling. Selecting up a brand new interest within the outdoor is doubly so. However choosing up a brand new interest within the outdoor that helps you discover your neighborhood is clutch.

Get Hooked is a six-part documentary collection following the fishing excursions of 4 queer millennial girls throughout Ontario. The quartet soak in angling savvy from quite a lot of specialists whereas exploring pure philosophies and historic contextual backgrounds alongside the way in which.

Fly fishing with Demiesha Dennis

Demiesha Dennis, environmentalist and founding father of Brown Woman Outside World, hosts Episode 1: Algonquin Park, the place the crew go fly fishing for smallmouth bass on the Madawaska River. “We go fishing,” Dennis reframes. “We don’t catch fish, we go to fish. So, in case you’re not catching fish, I nonetheless need you to take a look at it as a very nice day, since you’re out right here…you may be caught inside.”

In the identical episode, educator and marketing consultant Christine Luckasavitch (Algonquin) shares ancestral tales of quartz gathered close by for stone instruments. Luckasavitch additionally encourages anglers to be conscious. “Any time that you’re harvesting, whether or not it’s vegetation or animals, you by no means take the primary that you just come to and also you by no means take the final, as a result of that helps to make sure that it is going to be there for the longer term.”

Heidi Lynch feeding the necessity

Get Hooked Producer Heidi Lynch said the thought for the present was borne throughout COVID occasions, out of a noticeable lack of queer-created angling content material on main platforms, additional impressed by Lynch’s spouse and their mates’ new interest.

“We wish anybody who has questioned whether or not they belong within the outdoor and within the fishing house to be reminded that they’re, and that there are unbelievable people beings taking over house within the outdoor that may welcome them with open arms and a fishing rod,” Lynch solemnizes.

When requested if Get Hooked Season 2 is within the proverbial tacklebox, Lynch hints that ice fishing with Demiesha and/or a flight throughout the pond to UK waters are some reel potentialities.

Get Hooked, Episode 1 is obtainable on YouTube @TheGetHookedSeries. When you’re hooked there, transfer over to AMI+ (Canada) or OUTtv Canada. You may subscribe to OUTtv by Amazon Prime and AppleTV+ for Episodes 2-6. Equally, the companion Get Hooked Podcast can be out there on YouTube, which features a phase on searching and capturing fanatic Nicole Moore, in addition to extra fishing delights.

Episode 1: Algonquin Park