The Scranton Times Tribune

 Clarks Summit’s man’s fly fishing show now on cable    By Josh McAuliffe

 It took a while, but Charlie Charlesworth’s international fishing expeditions can now be found on national television.

 The Clarks Summit resident’s show, “Fly Fishing Top 2 Bottom,” which features appearances by Donald Trump, Jr., is now airing on cable’s The Sportsman Channel.

 Thirteen episodes of the show have been picked up by the channel, which is carried on Comcast channel 278, Direct TV channel 605 and Dish Network channel 285.  Each new on runs four times a week – Mondays at 12:30pm; Tuesdays at 6:30am; Thursdays at 5pm; and Saturdays at 10:30pm.

 “The channel is carried in 35 million cable households.  Now, if we can only get all 35 million to watch it,” Mr. Charlesworth cracked.

 The show is over two years in the making.  Mr. Charlesworth, who formerly hosted the local fishing programs “Fly Fishing the Northeast” and “Outdoors on the Fly,” originally had a deal to ai8r two fishing shows on cable’s Vs. network.  The first program was to feature Mr. Trump, whom Mr. Charlesworth first met during a trip to the Salmon River in Pulaski, NY, while the second would center on fly fishing legend and former Penn State University professor Joe Humphreys’ attempts to break world records.

 The deal with Vs. fell through, but Mr. Charlesworth eventually approached by The Sportsman Channel.  In the end, he had to combine the two shows into on due to Mr. Trump’s increasing involvement in his father Donald Sr.’s NBC reality show, “The Apprentice.”

 “His time with us was limited,” Mr. Charlesworth said.

 So, some episodes of “Fly Fishing Top 2 Bottom” will feature Mr. Trump and some will feature Mr. Humphreys, as well as Martin Carranza, another renowned fly fisherman.  They and Mr. Charlesworth will take viewers to famed fishing spots in New York, Arkansas, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and the Bahamas, among other places.

 Mr. Charlesworth still has to film the show’s final episode, which will involve Mr. Trump and either be shot along the Delaware River or at Penn’s Creek near State College.

 The show’s first two episodes have already aired, and as a result Mr. Charlesworth has received invites to fishing outposts in Oregon, Alaska and Chile.

 “So if we do get picked up (for a second season), we have the places to go,” he said.  “Everything is predicated on how we do ratings-wise.”