Bouncing Back From Heart Attacks, With Chef and Angler Ranga Perera

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In and around his home of Bozeman, Montana, Ranga Perera is highly sought after as a fly fishing pal and even more highly sought after as a personal chef. There’s nothing unusual about that combination, until you learn that his family came to the States in 1991 from Sri Lanka after a happy childhood was disrupted by a violent civil war. Less than a year after emigrating, Ranga’s father passed away and the event haunted him until his own brush with death years later. And yet Ranga lives life without a trace of cynicism or resentment, but rather with childlike wonder and excitement. How does he do it? Through fishing and cooking.

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1:06.1	First cast, I stick a huge rainbow.
1:09.4	There is an old timer about 50 yards upstream of me. And he's like,
1:14.5	did you just catch a rainbow out of blah, blah, blah? Yeah, he's like, I have been fishing this hole for 30
1:19.5	years and I've never seen someone pull a fish out of the side channel. He's like, good job, young man.
1:25.6	Was that like the trophy, the good job young man?
1:28.1	Oh, yeah, dude. From the silver back, you know,
1:31.2	just you just put it on the mantle? Yeah, I mean, you know,
1:33.6	nothing better in fly fishing than an old white dude telling me that I did it right.
1:36.9	You know what I mean?
1:39.6	You have my blessing son, you know?
1:42.2	That is the soundbite of all soundbite.
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