Episode 29: Tim Mahaffey - Tournament Maestro

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Tim Mahaffey, without question, is one of our sport’s greatest anglers of all time. His tournament success is astounding having won six of the major invitational bonefish tournaments and all three major tarpon tournaments. His three tournament guides consisting of Mark Krowka, Rick Murphy, and Duane Baker systematically honed their skills and methodology to target success against the top anglers in the Keys. Their focused crosshairs didn't miss too often. Here too is an important foot note to all this; for decades the major fly events were the Spring and Fall Fly Bonefish Tournament, The Gold Cup, and The Don Hawley Tarpon Tournament. To this day, Tim is the only angler to win all four. He is not only a phenomenal angler but an outstanding person with a beautifully kind way about him. Once he decided to move on from the tournament scene and not wanting to be off the water, he became a guide. There too, he’s made his mark. He guided Heidi Nute to a monster 152 pound world record tarpon caught on 12lb test (that later over tested and fell into the 16lb class category) and finished runner up in the Fall Fly. From either end of the boat Tim Mahaffey is incredibly fishy. On todays podcast, we dive into his success on the water. We hope you enjoy!

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0:00.0	Tim Mahaffi is one of the most successful tournament anglers of all time.
0:07.0	He won six invitational bonefish tournaments, four spring flies and two fall flies. He also won the three major tarp in
0:15.1	tournaments. He was scientific with his guides that he carefully selected. His
0:20.2	teams were calculated precise and deadly. Today, Tim talks about his methodology
0:26.6	and profound successes. There is a lot in this one. We hope you enjoy. We broke everything, we broke lines, we broke cooks, we broke rods, we broke our minds, we broke marriages, we broke the whole thing.
0:48.0	We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and whoever had the biggest pair of
0:53.6	pain he's won the pot. I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other
0:57.6	way and I shot him going through the other way so I double-lunged him both ways.
1:01.2	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
1:07.2	I got him on. All right now, we're going to teach him a lot so.
1:12.1	I'm just an old guy that likes to fish and I'm not quitting yet. And he said, well who
1:17.1	the hell do you think you are, Sue App? And I said that's exactly who I am.
1:23.0	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well-preserved body,
1:28.5	but rather skid-in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly out thoroughly used up proclaiming wildly wow what a ride
1:40.8	there's something fish busy going on here.
1:44.0	Well, Tim, uh,
1:49.0	well, Tim, uh, thank you for allowing us to come into your beautiful new home here in
1:55.8	Tavenier. Obviously, we've been doing this podcast collecting stories from
2:01.8	icons and Hall of Famers and we would not ever even
2:05.4	come close to being complete without having you on this podcast.
2:08.9	Yeah, we went to war for so many years.
2:12.0	I mean, take a look at your success down here.
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