As many anglers know, success in fishing is often about being patient and persistent, traits most teens and preteens these days don’t seem to have. But young sisters Lucy and Sadie Spatafore embrace those qualities. They were taught to them by their father, Dave Spatafore, who has been taking the girls fishing ever since they could hold a fishing rod.
“There are many variables to fishing, and so it's quite challenging, and oftentimes you'll catch no fish on a trip,” Dave Spatafore told MPR News. “So my biggest tip to them and everybody else is that (fly fishing is) a form of fishing where you just have to be very persistent and put the time in.”
It’s a lesson that’s paid off for both girls in a big way.
Last August, Lucy, then 14, and Sadie, then 11, were fly fishing with their dad in various trout streams along the north shore of Lake Superior.
Dave Spatafore with his daughters Lucy (left) and Sadie (right) near a small waterfall.
Courtesy of Dave Spatafore
The family from the Minneapolis suburb of Maple Grove was having bad luck. They had yet to catch a single fish over an entire weekend of trying.
“That trip, actually, we didn't catch any other fish … and it was on a Sunday, like, I don't know, noon-ish. We were gonna go home, (because) we just, we hadn't had much luck at all,” said Lucy.
But they kept at it and decided to try one more river, leaning into their patience and persistence. And that’s when Lucy finally landed not just any old fish, but a record rainbow trout, nearly 29 inches long.
“It was remarkable! It was so big, and we weren't sure, ‘Oh, is this record,’ you know? And so we submitted it, and sure enough, it was! It was crazy,” Lucy said. “It was super cool, because at the time that I caught the record, I was the youngest female to ever break a Minnesota state record.”
Lucy Spatafore holds her record catch rainbow trout, measuring about 28 ½ inches, caught in August 2025. Her record was broken in May this year by her younger sister, Sadie.
Courtesy of Dave Spatafore
Sadie Spatafore was thrilled for her older sister but also became determined to outdo her and catch an even bigger trout.
“We kind of had this, like, mini little rivalry of who's gonna catch the biggest one,” said Sadie. “And if I would, like, break hers, how big it would be.”
And it didn’t take long for her to do just that.
In May, the father-daughter trio set out for a trip up north over the fishing opener weekend toward the Boundary Waters, but they were met with frozen lakes not suitable for fishing.
“They were still all or like partially frozen over with ice, so then we ended up fishing a bunch of rivers that weekend,” said Sadie.
They tried several different rivers in which many rainbow trout were swimming upstream from Lake Superior to spawn.
Just like last August, they didn’t have much luck at first and only caught a few tiny fish.
“We were almost even going to skip it, because we were like, ‘Oh, this is getting kind of late, and we need to get home,’” said Sadie.
But their persistence won out. They gave it one last try in the same river Lucy had caught her record fish nine months earlier. They strapped on their waders, walked into the stream and started casting.
That’s when Sadie hooked her huge trout.
“We could tell that it was a really big one,” Sadie told MPR News. “They fight really hard, so you can see them just jump out of the water and everything, and we could tell that it was a really big one.”
It measured 30 inches, a little over an inch longer than Lucy’s, setting a new Minnesota record for catch and release trout.
Sadie (left) and Lucy Spatafore (right) pose with their fly fishing rods.
Courtesy of Dave Spatafore
“Sadie caught that one, so it was really exciting to finish out the trip like that. And, you know, she fought the fish really well,” said proud father Dave Spatafore.
Despite losing the record so soon after she had earned it, Lucy says she couldn't be happier for her younger sister.
“I'm really proud (of her),” said Lucy. “And it was so special that we were all together, — my dad, my sister and I — because we were together fishing when I caught my record. And then we got to be together when Sadie caught her record.”
While catching record-size fish is exciting, the Spatafore sisters agree that even when they catch nothing, their fishing trips are special.
“It's a really fun sport, and it's a great way to get outdoors and also spend time together as a family, going on these trips together,” said Sadie.
That said, both girls say they would be more than happy to break another record soon, as the Spatafore family heads back to the lakes and streams up north this summer.
“It might be cool if Dad could break the record, because he's been with us,” said Lucy. “But I don't know. I'd be super happy to catch an even bigger one, because that's a huge fish. We could break a different record too, you know.”
Vlocity (Salesforce Sectors) provides pre-built Salesforce solutions to meet the needs of specific industries which require CRMs that are significantly customized beyond Salesforce’s out-of-the-box state. Vlocity, which was founded in 2014, swiftly established itself as an “industrial cloud” pioneer, receiving 3 Forbes Cloud 100 honors in 2017, 2018, & 2019. What factors aided them in achieving such quick success?
Vlocity applications (based on the Salesforce platform) provide multichannel sales, advertising, servicing, and CPQ solutions to specific industries like Communications, Health coverage, Energy and Utilities, Financial Services, Multimedia, Healthcare, and Public Sector. The secret to success is straightforward. Companies profit from pre-built flows and procedures that would otherwise take several months (& millions) to construct custom. Salesforce purchased Vlocity in 2020. Salesforce has been able to include Vlocity’s industry-specific CRM systems in its current Salesforce Industries offerings as a result of the acquisition. Vlocity’s creator David Schmaier maintained his position as CEO of Salesforce Enterprises, a corporate unit in charge of establishing clouds for new verticals, following the rebranding.
What is Salesforce Industries, and what does it do?
Salesforce had a step up on the latest vertical solutions after acquiring Vlocity. In general, the 12 existing industry clouds are making progress inside the Vlocity apps. These add to Salesforce’s existing data model and give out-of-the-box services which reflect their industry’s language.
Two often used “clouds” are, for example:
Organizations gain all the tools and apps they need to develop subscription services, handle orders, quotations, and contracts in an agile manner with Media and Communications Clouds.
Financial Services Cloud: Provides a consolidated system with a unified customer’s perspective of their policy, financial information, and claims to support the banking, financial advisory, and insurance markets.
Marketing, sales, commercial agility, and also operating efficiency, are all enhanced by these clouds, which reduce time to value.
What is Salesforce Vlocity, and how does it work?
Salesforce Vlocity is the hottest innovation on the Salesforce platform, which is the industry’s leading provider of industry-specific solutions and software. It stands out as a worldwide forerunner in Customer Relationship Marketing, transforming the total customer experience (CX) (CRM). Vlocity also aids in the comprehension of the CMT, healthcare, and insurance realms. Salesforce Vlocity also has a lot more to offer, such as Lightning Web Omnichannel processes, Integration processes, Vlocity Actions, Tracking services, Data Migration, and so on. Salesforce Vlocity also improves CPQ and guided selling. Salesforce Vlocity is a trailblazer, enabling a slew of top and up-and-coming businesses to achieve their goals through its Omnichannel processes.
What are the different Salesforce Vlocity components?
Vlocity Insurance– To process all components of the insurance, Vlocity employs Microservice Architecture. Financial Service Cloud is intended to function with Vlocity Insurance.
Vlocity Media& Entertainment– This section contains a comprehensive industry solution for ad sales and subscriber sales in order to strengthen consumer and owner relationships.
Industry Cloud for Communications in Vlocity Communications aids in providing a consistent and individualized client experience.
Vlocity Health– Companies could use a Vlocity specialized device called Vlocity Health to run all of the sections relating to the health industry.
Vlocity Energy & Utilities is responsible for a number of industry-specific apps that allow the sale & service of a wide range of commodities and non-commodities.
Vlocity Benefits Salesforce in What Ways?
As a result of this collaboration, industry-specific solutions have become a key component of the platform’s capabilities. Salesforce has improved its adaptability over time, seeking to meet any industry issue. Nonetheless, one stumbling block remains unsolved: IT complexity. Consider a company with a complex IT stack, including some in-house applications. It will take a long time and a lot of money to replace it with a centralized platform. To enable end-to-end business processes, consultants and developers must customize the system, align, and merge apps.
This is where Vlocity comes in. Vlocity adds enterprise product catalogs (EPCs), customer relationship management (CRM), order processing, and digital commerce to Salesforce, and also pre-built methods and new models. The software is developed in strict accordance with industry standards established by organizations such as the TM Forum as well as the MAF. As a result, businesses are able to go live more quickly. They teach their employees and may eventually be self-sufficient, saving money on consultants and developers.
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Overview of OmniStudio
OmniStudio is a modular framework that allows you to easily develop Salesforce flows and solutions using standard click-based components.
The architecture of OmniStudio is made up of three layers:
Digital Experimentation :
This is the User Interface Engine. It contains all of the user interface elements that can be selected and dragged toward the action area. We must choose the appropriate component depending on business requirements. The back-end layer’s entry point is this layer. To conduct any operation, simply connect the back-end components to the components. This UI Engine gets separated into two categories once more:
FlexCards :
Flexcard is an alternative if you really want to display multiple data in less space. Flex cards have been used to display data at a glance. This is a drag-and-drop tool that allows you to quickly configure, preview, and troubleshoot a screen. FlexCards present and summarise contextual information and actions from Salesforce and third-party platforms.
Omniscripts :
OmniScript is being used to give users a guided path through the business processes. That implies you can show multiple screens in a row. We may create pages quickly and effortlessly with the assistance of OmniScript, which is a drag-and-drop application. This is also entirely programmable, allowing it to be tailored to specific requirements. Another omniscript can be called from one omniscript. You may use OmniScripts to create sales, service pathways, and other business operations.
Service Management :
Backend logic & data are handled by this layer. By using integrations, Service Management may read and write data via Salesforce and other external sources.
It is divided into two sections:
1. OmniStudio Dataraptors :
DataRaptors are used to retrieve, transform, and update information. They are used to perform data-related operations such as reading, writing, and transforming data from external sources. There are four parts to Dataraptors
DataRaptor Turbo Extract: As the name implies, this program is used to extract information from a data object. This component has the most efficient data retrieval speed. This option should be used if the need on your page would be to return just a single item.
DataRaptor Extract: Most of the time, we need to work with several objects on a page; in this situation, vlocity gives us this alternative. Use DataRaptor Extract to return many objects.
DataRaptor Load: This component is used to update the information in Salesforce.
DataRaptor Transform: Whenever your data isn’t solely in Salesforce and you’d like to retrieve it and display it in Omniscript/flex cards, use DataRaptor Transform.
2. OmniStudio Integration Procedures :
To carry out such tasks, this instrument is quick and dependable. You can use Integration Procedures to retrieve data from third-party services.
Developer Experience :
OmniStudio Data packs can be managed with the IDX Build Tool. IDX Workbench seems to be a desktop program for transferring Salesforce information and Data packs. In conclusion, like custom programming, OmniStudio provides simple shortcuts and greater reuse chances for adapting the industry-oriented solution to your specific needs.
However, there are several disadvantages to be aware of right now:
Many clouds are combined within one common functionality by industries. As a result, it’s difficult to tell if a certain feature is part of the current implementation.
Since all clouds & APIs receive information in one bundle, updates do not even have a defined structure.
Errors and platform constraints have limited support.
Vlocity’s data model and functionalities are best suited for enterprises at the enterprise level. Some argue that it’s inappropriate again for the SMB market, because not only does it need a greater budget, but it also leaves small-medium firms with capabilities they don’t want and won’t utilize.
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What are FlexCard Actions?
FlexCard Actions can be used to start or modify an OmniScript, connect to a website page or app, show a flyout, launch an event, or change the values of data fields. FlexCards can do the following actions:
Card — Load, modify data source, or erase cards at the card level.
Event Custom — To alert the main FlexCard of an occurrence, fire a Custom Event. PubSub — To alert another element on a website or app of an event, fire a PubSub Event.
Flyout – In a modal or popover, show extra details from such a child card, OmniScript, as well as a custom Lightning web component (LWC).
Navigate — Choose a targeted URL or a PageReference type that allows you to navigate inside Lightning Experience, across Communities, to another website.
OmniScript — Use the FlexCard to launch an OmniScript.
Update OmniScript – Update an OmniScript from a FlexCard incorporated as a customized Lightning web component inside an OmniScript.
OmniScript Action – Update any OmniScript from a FlexCard integrated as a customized Lightning web component in an OmniScript A reusable OmniStudio Action can be used to launch OmniScripts, elements, websites, or external programs. The same OmniScript can be launched from numerous FlexCards using an OmniStudio Action.
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Conclusion
To summarise, Vlocity achieved a breakthrough by offering businesses such an architectural foundation tailored to their industry. Salesforce’s acquisition signaled the company’s transition to industry-specific products that are easier to tailor and onboard users. For such a quicker digital transformation journey, firms can use the current Salesforce Industry clouds, which offer a configurable data model and a reliable version with reusable solutions.
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