Episode 21: Capt. Bob Branham - Bonefish Brilliance

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

For the last 50 years Bob Branham has chased his chosen fish, Bonefish, over the shallow flats and edges of Biscayne Bay and the Florida Keys. You can't count out all the great permit and tarpon he's captured over the years, but Branham is a bone-fisherman! Albula Vulpes is his DNA. He knows where they're going to go next before they know where they're going to go next. Aside from his fishing genius, Bob Branham is one of the most remarkable people we know. Nicky caught his first saltwater fish with Bob and I caught my first Bonefish and Tarpon on fly with him. You can say he had a major influence in our ever growing passion for fishing. Bob's heart is the size of Texas. He's fought and won the biggest bonefish tournaments, beat the giants, who after congratulated him with the tightest of bear hugs. He is respected and cherished by all of his peers.Here he is, our beloved friend, Bob Branham.

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0:00.0	Had I not had a great guide like Bob Branham in my first few outings, I may not have dove head
0:06.4	first into one of the most important love affairs of my life. These people are
0:11.0	invaluable not only catching fish, but possibly changing people's lives.
0:16.0	Introducing new anglers to a profound lifelong sport and to the invaluable resource and conservation.
0:22.0	Bob has been that guide to many of us and one of the most
0:25.6	important voices to South Florida's fishery. I hope you enjoy the show. We broke everything, we broke
0:35.0	everything, we broke lines, we broke cooks, we broke rods,
0:41.0	we broke our minds, we broke marriages, we broke the whole thing.
0:47.0	We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and whoever had the biggest pair of
0:52.9	pain he's won the pot.
0:54.9	I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I
0:57.3	shot him going through the other way so I double-lunged him both ways.
1:01.7	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
1:05.0	I got him on. All right now, we're going to teach him a lesson.
1:10.0	I'm just an old guy that likes to fish and I'm not quitting yet.
1:14.0	And he said, well who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
1:18.0	And I said that's exactly who I am.
1:21.0	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well-preserved body,
1:28.0	but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly torn out, thoroughly used up
1:34.2	proclaiming wildly, wow!
1:37.6	What a ride!
1:41.6	There's something fishy going on here. Well, as Nicky was setting up here we've got the great Bob Branham here today at the
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