Entrepreneur reels in success

Local real estate broker and CPA-turned-fishing-and-hunting entrepreneur Larysa Switlyk has made what once was a hobby into a Hollywood reality.

Switlyk, 27, even has the punchy nickname to go with it: Bowfishing Babe.

Switlyk's career transformation, which she says is the payoff from three years of hard work, revolves around her role on two TV shows. One is a fishing competition reality show that airs Sunday nights on Animal Planet, “Top Hooker,” where Switlyk, a Sarasota resident, was bestowed the Bowfishing Babe.