Episode 106: George Sawley - The Wild One

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Having growing up in Marathon, Florida with the Gulf Stream at his front door and world class flats everywhere he looked, George's playground was a fisherman's dream. It was the ultimate adventure park he’d take full advantage of. His bus ride to school had other kids that loved to fish, too, like Dustin and Chad Huff. They would all become world class at their craft. Sawley dreamed of being a guide and started to fish the bridges at night for tarpon. He began poling locals around at 17, and would mate on a charter boat for a while. George would eventually fish different locations with the legendary "Capt. Hook" (Ron Hamlin) and Benny Spaulding. He’d have his greatest success as a Captain chasing world record marlin with Harry Gray, one the the greatest offshore fly fishers of all time. Many years later, he began conversations with Hal Chittum regarding a mutual goal of building big offshore boats, which evolved to building Chittum skiffs, the greatest flats boat ever built! On today's podcast, George Sawley goes deep into his wild life as a mate, captain, and adventurer.

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0:00.0	Papa's Pappas Pilar is a spirit that embodies adventure, named after the late Great Ernest Hemingway in his boat, the Pilar.
0:10.0	The name says it all. This ultra premium blended rum is hand selected from around the
0:15.6	Caribbean and blended by master blender Ron Call. After a long day in the water
0:20.6	when the sun is descending the sky, end on a good note with
0:24.8	peelard by your side. Go support them at pappas peelard.com or a liquor store near
0:30.7	you.
0:39.0	Whether on the boat, on the river, or in the woods, Yeti products are by our side.
0:41.4	There are many innovative first-class companies in the outdoor market today, but none more so than Yeti.
0:48.0	In 2006, they took the industry by storm, when they produced first road of molded cooler that was reliable and built for the wild
0:57.8	17 years later with a multitude of new products they continued to raise the bar and be the gold standard for all outdoor
1:05.7	brands. We couldn't be more proud to have them as the Millhouse sponsor and a family member. George Sali knows boat design as well as anyone and has found his innovative
1:26.5	skills as a founding partner with Chittem Yats. More specifically at this
1:31.9	stage of the company they produce a shallow water skiff that changed
1:36.1	everything in the world of flat fishing.
1:39.1	But to get there, he first experienced an incredible life on the open seas chasing Marlin with one of the greatest offshore fly fishermen of all time, Harry Gray. We broke everything, we broke lines, we broke cooks, we broke rods, we broke our minds, we broke
2:00.9	our minds, we broke marriages, we broke the whole thing.
2:07.0	We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and whoever had the biggest pair of
2:11.8	pain he's won the pot.
2:13.0	I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I shot him going through the other way.
2:18.0	So I doubled him both ways.
2:20.0	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
2:25.0	I got him on. All right now. We're going to teach him a lot so.
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