Episode 129: Lenny Berg - Fishing Florida In The 1950's

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Hobbies, Leisure, Sports, Education, Wilderness

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🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Over the years, as I’ve participated in various fishing tournaments, I’ve often noticed the names etched on the trophies from past events. One name that always stood out to me was Lenny Berg. He made history by winning the first inaugural Don Hawley Tarpon Tournament in 1976, with the legendary Billy Knowles as his guide. Lenny also triumphed in the Fall Fly Bonefish Tournament three times, alongside his guide, Steve Huff. One of his most remarkable feats was landing a 128-pound tarpon on 10-pound test, setting a world record that was later invalidated when the IGFA removed the 10-pound tippet category for world records, erasing those catches from the record books. Lenny’s fishing journey also had him alongside some of the sport’s most influential pioneers, including Woody Sexton, Eddie Wightman, Hank Brown, Stu Apte, Guy de Valdene, Jimmy Lopez, Hal Chittum, and John Emory, just to name a few. In today’s podcast, we not only explore Lenny’s incredible life in fishing, but we’re also joined by his son, Elliot Berg. Like his father, Elliot is an outstanding angler, but he’s also an ingenious boat designer in his own right. We discuss both Lenny’s legacy and Elliot’s work in pushing the boundaries of boat design, including his contributions to the Maverick Boat Company, which revolutionized flats skiffs and became one of the most successful brands in the industry for decades.

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1:00.9	We broke everything, we broke lines, we broke hooks, we broke rods, we broke our minds,
1:08.2	we broke marriages, we broke the whole thing.
1:12.6	We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls,
1:16.6	and whoever had the biggest pair of panties went to pot.
1:19.6	I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way,
1:22.6	and I shot him going through the other way, so I double lunged them both ways.
1:26.6	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
1:32.0	I got him on. All right now. We're going to teach him a lot.
1:37.0	I'm just an old guy that likes to fish. I'm not quitting yet.
1:41.3	And he said, well, who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
1:46.5	And I said, that's exactly who I am.
1:53.0	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well-preserved body,
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