Episode 12: Nathaniel Linville - Angling Genius

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Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Wherever you look in life, you’ll find exceptional individuals who stand alone, capable of changing the game. Their names will forever have an asterisk aside them.Nathaniel Linville is one of those names. He has thrown the permit world and its perception of success off its axis, but getting there he had to survive some of life’s most devastating bombs. For a number of years his life was that of a hub cap knocked loose at 100mph. His academia had a similar road map. He was expelled from high school and his college residency had six different zip codes including some overseas. His abyss was dark and deep with just a sliver of light. But that light eventually found the owner of this lost soul and Nathaniel started to claw his way out. On today’s episode, The Angling Company’s store owner talks of his labyrinth road to recovery, his methodology to his staggering permit numbers, and his nine year war he and Steve Huff waged to capture his monster world record tarpon on 6lb test.

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0:00.0	On today's episode, I sit down with Nathaniel Linville, the owner of the Angling Company in Key West, Florida.
0:10.0	Without question, Linville is this generation's greatest permit angler.
0:15.2	We dive into his complicated challenging life of misdirection and drugs,
0:20.4	coming out the other side to a successful life of a business owner and one of our sports most respected anglers.
0:27.0	He is a brilliant man who thinks outside the box, but today he takes us inside his think tank and gives us a different perspective of how he has perfected his trade,
0:38.0	which will have our world thinking differently about how to be successful chasing our sports most elusive fish.
0:44.6	The spectrum of our conversation today also includes the capture of 140.3 pound
0:50.4	world record tarpon on six pound pound test a story you won't want to miss.
0:57.0	We broke everything we broke lines we broke cooks we broke rods we broke our minds we broke
1:08.8	marriages we broke the whole thing we came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and whoever had the biggest pair of pain he's when the pot.
1:20.0	I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I shot him going through the other way so I double-lunged him both ways.
1:27.0	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
1:31.0	I cut him on, all right. I'm going to teach him a lesson. I'm just an old
1:37.8	guy that likes to fish. I'm not quitting yet. And he said, well who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
1:44.0	And I said, that's exactly who I am.
1:47.0	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well-preserved body body but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke
1:56.5	thoroughly torn out thoroughly used up proclaiming wildly! What a ride!
2:06.0	There's something fishy going on here. Nathaniel it's an interesting way to start this interview in the fact that you have had such a diverse life.
2:26.2	They are profiling tonight on ESPN 3030 the fall from Grace of Lance Armstrong.
2:33.3	Your story goes the other way.
2:36.3	I mean, you have built your castle
2:39.6	from below ground zero, if you will.
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