Episode 2: Tom Evans, Dean Butler, & Al Dopirak - The World's Greatest Fly Fishing Team

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Angler Tom Evans, guides Dean Butler and Al Dopirak are the world's greatest fly fishing, big fish world record chasers of all time! In shallow water, the bluest of blue water, the biggest tarpon, the biggest billfish....The fishing world has been spellbound by their catches for decades. In 2015, the International Game Fish Hall of Fame (IGFA) recognized Tom's efforts and success by inducting him into this pantheon of fishing. We were extremely lucky that Tom, Dean, and Al all agreed to sit down and recap the years of chasing massive Tarpon in Homosassa and enormous Marlin in Vanuatu. Grab a cocktail and get ready for some incredible fish stories. This interview is raw, true, wry and extremely entertaining, nothing shy of the man himself, Tom Evans!

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0:00.0	Tom Evans, in my opinion, is the greatest big game fly fisherman the sports ever had.
0:08.0	To chase world record fish around the world and do it successfully, you need a team.
0:13.0	Today we sit with Tom Evans, Dean Butler, and Al de Peric
0:18.0	the greatest fishing team ever assembled. We broke our minds, we broke marriages, we broke the whole thing.
0:37.0	We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and whoever had the biggest pair of
0:43.4	pain he's won the pot. I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other
0:47.4	way and I shot him going through the other way so I double-lunged him both ways.
0:51.0	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
0:57.2	I got him on.
0:58.2	All right now, we're going to teach him a lot so.
1:02.2	I'm just an old guy that likes to fish and I'm not quitting yet.
1:05.0	And he said, well who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
1:09.0	And I said, that's exactly who I am.
1:12.0	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well-preserved body,
1:18.0	but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly torn out, thoroughly used up proclaiming wildly. Wow! What a ride!
1:32.0	There's something busy going on here.
1:34.0	All right, Nicky, you're going on here.
1:37.0	All right, Nicky, in Homosasasa. We are here in Homosasa after what 38 years.
1:49.9	We are here in Aropica. That's right.
1:54.0	We're hiding the poon house.
1:56.0	Anyway, the great Tom Evans, Alda Perrick, and Dean Butler, you guys have amassed.
2:02.0	I would say through you Tom probably the greatest
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