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ON THE FL
Jimmy Cheers (right) shows off a catch alongside his grandfather, Jimmy Cheers, Sr.
JIMMY CHEERS
TAKES TO THE RIVER
Boyhood experiences led him to believe that everybody went fishing.
These days he's working toward that goal.
By NANCY HENDERSON | Photos by JESSE CHEERS
O
ne of Jimmy Cheers' earliest memories is of cruising
Virginia's South Holston
River on a drift boat with his
grandfather and dad during
the TVA-sponsored River Rat
Race, deliberately bringing up
the rear and rescuing competitors whose
crafts ran into trouble. Cheers was just 4
years old.
As the years passed, the men spent a
lot of time on the SoHo and Watauga rivers in search of brown and rainbow trout.
"It was really special when we'd get
to fish in the summertime, fishing the
Sulphur hatches," he says. "Not to be ar-
rogant, but I kind of thought that everybody got to fish. I had no idea how lucky I
was to have that upbringing. Fast forward
15-plus years, it's an amazing, amazing
river for so many different reasons, and
now I'm able to share that resource with
people on a daily basis. It's very fulfilling
to get to do that."
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