We had no idea that she was an angler. Turns out, Sally Jessy Raphael is an avid one, so much so that she and her husband will be the first to fish on Saturday morning on April 10 in Roscoe.
The Catskills town of Roscoe, N.Y., always celebrates trout opening in a big way. This year its festivities were moved to April 10, when Sally Jesse Raphael and others will lead the ceremonial 7:30 a.m. event at Junction Pool.
According to the Sullivan County Democrat, this is the second time that Sally has performed this ceremonial role for Roscoe:
... special guest fly fishers Sally Jesse Raphael, her husband, Karl Soderlund, and New York State Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther ... will continue the tradition of the ceremonial First Cast of the trout season. Sally was the celebrity fly fishing guest back in 2000 and continues to enjoy casting a fly.
According to the New York Times, that was actually in 2001:
While most guests excitedly discussed today's first cast ceremony, which would be led by the talk show host and avid fly-fisher Sally Jesse Raphael, Dave and I huddled over dinner, scheming about where to go.
But the NYT also spelled her name incorrectly, so who knows:
Correction: April 12, 2001, Thursday A sports article on April 2 about the opening of trout season in New York State misspelled the middle name of the television personality who made the ceremonial first cast. She is Sally Jessy Raphael, not Jesse.
