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Episode 124: Brian O'Keefe - Life of Fishing & Photography

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5973 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Brian O'Keefe was a man born to be free of any kind of structure and fishing was the caveat to keep him running to the end of the rainbow where the best fishing holes lay. I recognize this because I have the same life text book which reads; ski, fish, eat, sleep! Seeing a photograph of him in his early life, upside down on a Powder Magazine cover, struck me deeply as I remembered this photo from many moons ago. I always wondered who this free spirited skier was. Jump ahead 15 years when I was cutting my teeth with a fish called Megalops, I heard of Brian catching a world record fish with Pate in Africa. Later, while at a trade show a number of years ago, I meet this mystery man, O'Keefe. Very rarely do you meet such a giant so gregarious and friendly. It was as if he was seeking to be hired for his first job. We didn’t spend much time together, but I knew instantly we could be incredible friends. Over the next 15 years I kept a keen eye on Brian’s work in many publications from every corner of the planet, and I always thought to myself when I’d see a photograph of him with an extraordinary subject , “what a lucky guy!” And finally we get to hear all about it.

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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.

0:40.0

Duck camp makes outdoor goods so you can outdoor good. From the shallow water flats to the Mallard Field marshes. Duck Camp is there to make you

0:44.8

feel comfortable and enhance the quality of your time and the elements. Not only

0:49.3

do they make some of the best outdoor apparel on the market, but they support many of the

0:54.2

organizations near and dear, fighting for a resource in the natural world.

0:59.1

Check them out at duckamp.com and tell them we sent you.

1:03.6

We've broke everything, we broke lines, we broke cooks, we broke rods, we broke our minds, we broke marriages, we broke the whole thing.

1:20.0

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.

1:27.0

I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I shot him going through the other way.

1:32.0

So I double-lunged him both ways.

1:34.1

But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.

1:38.3

I got him on all right now I'm gonna teach him a lot so.

1:44.0

I'm just an old guy that likes to fish and I'm not quitting yet.

1:48.0

And he said, well, who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?

1:52.0

And I said, that's exactly who I am.

1:55.0

Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well-preserved body,

2:01.0

but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly torn out,

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