Episode 30: Capt. Tim Carlile - Heart of Gold

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Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Tim Carlile was born in San Diego, CA in 1949. His father, Cliff, introduced him to the outdoors at a very young age, and like many others, found a way to pursue a career out of his passion. Tim, following in his father’s footsteps, became a fishing guide out of Sugarloaf Marina in the Florida Keys from very early on. He recalls his first trip was at age 11 years old! Tim is now 72 years old and still puts in at that same marina every day. He has been guiding for 61 years and shows no sign of slowing down - the guy is a super human. Tim not only is an incredible fishing guide, he is one of the funniest people you will ever meet. He loves pulling a good prank whether it’s hiding in the ice cooler, or putting a fake alligator in the shrimp tank. His laugh is infectious and the more you are around him, the more time you want to spend with him. It is a honor to call him a good friend and every time I see him, it’s hard not to smile and give him a big hug. Today, Tim speaks about his near death experience when him and his late wife, Gloria, sunk his Hewes Bonefisher while dolphin fishing. He also talks about what serving in the military meant to him, early backcountry fishing in the lower keys, and the one time he found a cuban refugee boat in the mangroves. This is one you won’t want to miss. Thank you so much for coming on, Tim. Can’t wait to see you again soon…

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0:00.0	Tim Carlisle has stood the test of time day in and day out for 71 years.
0:08.0	He's an American war hero and one of the great legends of the Lower Keys.
0:14.0	Timmy, as many of his friends call him, was born with a chest cavity too small for
0:19.1	his loving heart.
0:20.9	If his story doesn't bring you to your knees, make you want to race to your wife and kiss her face, nothing will.
0:27.0	God Save the Queen and Tim Carlisle.
0:30.0	Hang on everyone. Here comes a story for the ages.
0:35.0	We broke everything, we broke lines, we broke cooks, we broke rods, we broke our minds, we broke marriages, we broke the whole thing.
0:50.0	We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and whoever had the biggest pair of pain he was in the pot.
0:57.0	I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I shot him going through the other way.
1:02.0	So I double-lung them both ways.
1:04.0	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
1:08.0	I got him on. All right now, we're going to teach him a lot so.
1:13.0	I'm just an old guy that likes to fish.
1:16.0	I'm not quitting yet.
1:18.0	And he said, well, who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
1:22.0	And I said, that's exactly who I am.
1:25.0	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well-preserved body,
1:31.0	but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly torn out, thoroughly
1:36.5	used up proclaiming wildly, wow!
1:40.9	What a ride. ride. There's something fizzy going on here.
1:47.0	Uh,
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