The four Minnesotans profiled on this page are among the 17 U.S. and Canadian anglers elected this year to the Fresh Water Fishing Hall Of Fame in Hayward, Wis. Three of the Minnesota inductees — Dave Csanda, Bob Nasby and Tom Zenanko — will be formally honored at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Northwest Sportshow. The fourth, Trisha Blake, an executive with FLW Outdoors of the Twin Cities, will be inducted at a later date.

Trisha Blake

Wayzata

Trisha Blake has been a key player in the growth of Forrest L. Wood Outdoors (FLW), which runs 231 fishing events annually, including high school, college and professional tournaments. She has been president of marketing since 2010, after serving six years as senior vice president and chief marketing officer. Blake has played a critical role at FLW in strategic planning, marketing, sponsorship and communications, and was instrumental in the development and growth of FLW Fantasy Fishing, which was launched in 2007 with a $1 million top award. Her efforts have exposed fishing beyond the 60 million-plus anglers who participate in the sport each year, propelling the sport into the mainstream. One of her goals is to take FLW global.

Dave Csanda

Baxter

A longtime outdoor communicator now with Lindner Media Productions, Csanda has been at the forefront of fishing education for more than 35 years. He has fished from Alaska to Australia, Europe to South America and all across the United States and Canada for everything from bass to muskies and panfish and trout, and specializes in scripts for educational television fishing programs and DVDs, national TV commercials, product sales presentations, and point-of-purchase DVDs. Csanda frequently appears on Lindner's Angling Edge and Fishing Edge television shows, and is active in "Let's Go Fishing," a nonprofit organization that gets seniors, youth and veterans into the outdoors and fishing.

Bob Nasby

St. Paul

During a lifetime of fishing, Nasby has owned a rod-making shop, been a fly fishing guide and fly casting instructor, and has introduced countless men, women and kids to the joys of casting flies for bass, walleyes, muskies, northern pike and panfish. An expert fly caster, Nasby is without peer as a casting instructor, fly tier and fishing innovator. Whether he is developing new patterns to fool bonefish in the Keys, steelhead on the North Shore or, by belly boat, trout along Minnesota's Gunflint Trail, Nasby is the consummate angler. His enthusiasm for fishing and his ability to lead others toward lives in which fishing plays an important role might be his greatest qualities.

Tom Zenanko

Shakopee

Zenanko has dedicated his life to teaching people how to fish and how to catch fish. His "Sportsmen's Journal'' television series was shown in 43 markets in the 1980s, and his bestselling video tape series, "Tom Zenanko's Fishing Tips and Secrets,'' helped mold important angling trends. The author of four books on fishing and onetime publisher of a hunting and fishing magazine, he has led more than 1,200 fishing seminars in 28 states and, in 1992, won the Professional Walleye Trail's Western Walleye Championship. Currently he hosts and produces "Ice Fishing Today Television," a Web-based fishing program sponsored by his employer, Vexilar.