Peck, Ted "Uncle Stumbly"

PECK, Ted "Uncle Stumbly," sport fisher, guide (b 8 May 1929; d 26 Oct 2001, White Rock). He grew up in Fisherman's Cove in W VANCOUVER and became one of BC's best-known sport fishers of the 1960s. Peck fished throughout his childhood and began saltwater and freshwater guiding at the age of 15. During the 1940s and 1950s he helped pioneer the art of mooching and became one of the first anglers to use a downrigger by employing a broom handle, pulley, 5-pound sash weight and a clothespin to...

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