Flip Pallot, whose avuncular narration and Hemingwayesque beard were the trademarks of a long-running ESPN fishing show, “The Walker’s Cay Chronicles,” which helped transform saltwater fly fishing — the pulse-pounding sport of hooking large fish with featherweight tackle — into a pursuit of stockbrokers and C.E.O.s, died on Aug. 26 in Thomasville, Ga. He was 83.
His family said the cause was complications of surgery.
Mr. Pallot, a Florida native, abandoned a banking career to become a professional fishing guide, TV host and technical consultant to fly-fishing gear makers, as well as a conservationist who worked to protect the Everglades and South Florida estuaries polluted by the sprawl of the megalopolis he called “My-AM-uh.”
The magazine Garden and Gun once pronounced him “arguably the most famous angler in the history of saltwater fly fishing.”
The American Museum of Fly Fishing called Mr. Pallot “one of fly fishing’s true greats.”
“The Walker’s Cay Chronicles” ran from 1992 to 2006 on Saturday mornings, with Mr. Pallot, its engaging, low-key host, telling tales of expeditions he took with other fishers in waters as close to home as the Florida Keys or as distant as New Guinea and Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.