Mike Aughney is the originator of online fishing reports. An outspoken proponent of fisheries and the environment, he has been a leading voice for California salmon.

Major League Baseball legend Dusty Baker is also a legendary angler and duck hunter. This extraordinary champion has inspired thousands to head to the outdoors and accomplished a scope of adventures that has made him one of the nation’s most traveled outdoorsmen.

One of California’s first outdoor broadcasters, Bel Lange started his Emmy-winning TV show, ‘The Outdoorsman’ the mid 1950s. He introduced his viewers, listeners and readers to the greatness of California’s outdoors for decades thereafter.

Described as the embodiment of the authentic outdoorsman, Yancey Forest-Knowles has experienced the outdoors like few others. He has fished fresh and saltwater species worldwide, guided white water trips, sailed the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, been a competitive sporting clays shooter and been a key voice in the halls of government for the outdoorsman.

Brian Riley is the California originator of what has become a national trend in outdoor youth education. Three generations of young outdoorsmen and women have been inspired at his Red Bank Outdoor Academy.