Married 48 years, one sore spot

Henry and Stacey Winkler sat down with Graham Bensinger to talk marriage. One hobby turned Hollywood's nicest guy into a rule-breaking competitor: fly-fishing.

She called out the padding

Bensinger asked Stacey about her claim that Henry inflates his catch. Winkler looked genuinely offended and insisted he keeps exact records in a book.

“I write down in my book exactly. I don't round off.”

The line that landed

Stacey did not back down. She turned his own words about rounding up for charity straight back on him, and Winkler had no comeback ready.

“You are about your fish size the way other people are about… other sizes.”

Shocked and hurt

Winkler said he had just learned something new after nearly five decades: his wife does not trust his measurements. He denied padding anything.

“I'm shocked. I'm hurt.”

He kept crossing the oars

Sharing a boat, they split the water at the oars. Henry took the back half, then kept casting into hers whenever her side looked better.

“And sometimes her water on the other side of the oar looks really fishy.”

A 7-year-old with a rod

Stacey says her reasonable husband vanishes the moment he picks up a fly rod. Their first trip together produced more arguments than all their prior years of marriage.

“He is this reasonable man who turns into a 7-year-old.”

Separate boats fixed it

The Winklers now fish with separate boats, separate guides and different parts of the river. Arguments dropped, and the marriage held.

She still texts the trophy shots

When Stacey lands a big one she sends Henry a photo. He denies being irritated, then blames female pheromones, or maybe Photoshop on the boat.

“Unless on the boat she can Photoshop.”