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Famous People from
Lane County, Kansas including Harold Ensley
Harold Ensley grew
up on a cattle ranch near the town of Healy in
Lane County Kansas. He was an American radio and
television personality best known for his
television program The Sportsman's Friend.
His innovative, nationally syndicated program
was one of the first to feature fishing and
hunting. The show ran nonstop for 48 years. In
the 1950s he invented the "Reaper" fishing lure,
which played a seminal role in the growth of jig
and soft-plastic fishing baits. Throughout his
career he endorsed and marketed his own line of
fishing rods, reels and various fishing
merchandise manufactured though different
companies. He wrote two books, Winds of
Chance and Wings of Chance, which
recount some of his life's adventures outdoors.
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