Episode 26: Capt. Paul Tejera - Zest For Life

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Paul Tejera is one of my closest friends on and off the water. His enthusiasm for life is second to none. He'll dive head first into anything that just appears to be fun and then he'll excel at it. Tennis, Golf, Snowboarding, Kite Boarding, Surfing, and Softball, but his fishing prowess is world class! Having won 6 tarpon tournaments (Paul is one of only a handful of guides to win all three major tarpon tournaments; The Gold Cup, The Don Hawley, and The Golden Fly), two All Tackles, The Spring Fly Bonefish tournament, The $25,000 Biggest Bonefish Shootout, and The Best of The West Casting tournament puts him among one of the world's most sought after guides. Paul and I won 5 of his 6 Tarpon tournaments together and he lived with me in my home is Aspen for a spell. If there's one person you can count on to have the time of your life with, it's Paul Tejera!! I hope you enjoy his stories...

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0:00.0	Paul Tehera has been one of the winningest tarping guides in the Florida Keys,
0:06.8	successfully completing wins in all three major tournaments, the Gold Cup, the Golden
0:11.6	Fly, and the Don Holly.
0:13.2	Also, he and the late Jim Bocar cut the winning bonefish in a $24,000 Calcutta
0:19.8	winner-take-all with a 15-pound fish.
0:22.4	Paul's been a great friend for a long time. We won
0:26.4	five tarpent tournaments together and even came out to Aspen, lived in my home and
0:31.0	became a snowboard instructor.
0:33.0	He lives life as full as anyone I know, a true inspiration to all.
0:37.8	I hope you enjoy his story. We broke everything,
0:45.0	everything, we broke lines, we broke hooks, we broke rods, we broke our minds,
0:51.0	we broke our minds, marriages, we broke the whole thing.
0:57.0	We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and whoever had the biggest pair of
1:02.2	pain he's, won the pot.
1:04.2	I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I
1:06.6	shot him going through the other way.
1:08.2	So I double-lung them both ways.
1:11.0	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
1:15.0	I got him on.
1:17.0	All right now, we're going to teach him a lesson.
1:20.0	I'm just an old guy that likes to fish and I'm not quitting yet.
1:24.0	And he said, well, who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
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