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Mill House Podcast

Episode 31: Capt. Joe Rodriguez - Sábalo Loco

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5973 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

After his family fled Havana, Cuba, Joe Rodriguez was born on Miami Beach in 1971. His father left early on and throughout Joe’s childhood his mother played multiple rolls as a provider, roll model, and care taker of the family. Joe soon met life-long friend, Rob Hammer, and together started to explore and fish the waters off South Florida, breaking records and creating names for themselves. He later went on to win non-guided Miami MET Master Angler in 1994-1995 & 1996-1997. Norman Jansik, Al Plfuguer Jr., and Ralph Delph quickly became his mentors in one way or another. He not only looked up to these legends but they showed him what was possible and were relatively responsible for his success for years to come. Joe became a full time guide in the Florida Keys in 1998 and hasn’t look back since. Along with angler, Julian Robertson, they won the Golden Fly Tarpon Tournament in 2013 and the prestigious Gold Cup Tarpon Tournament in 2016. Joe also won the Ladies Tarpon Fly Tournament with Jayne Kilpatrick in 2008. As said on the podcast, Rodriguez loves to fish for anything - it doesn’t have to be just Tarpon. That being said, the people who know him, understand his relentless pursuit and unmatched passion for those silver critters. His work ethic and desire to better himself as an angler and a guide speaks for itself. If you want to catch Tarpon, Bonefish, or Permit in the Florida Keys, Everglades, or anywhere in Florida for that matter, finding a more driven guide is going to be nearly impossible. We hope you enjoy Joe’s story…

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0:00.0

There are a few people who love tarp and fishing as much as Joe Rodriguez or chase them as hard.

0:08.0

Regardless of the weather or time of year, you can usually find him out on an edge somewhere, with his eyes burning holes in the

0:15.3

water looking for that elusive fish.

0:18.5

Like many great fishman, his ancestors emigrated from Cuba.

0:23.0

Raised by his hero, his mom, he drove himself hard to possibly not only prove something to himself,

0:30.0

but a father who left a great family stranded. Here's his story.

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.

0:51.0

We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and whoever

0:55.7

had the biggest pair of pain he's, Wendy Pot.

0:58.6

I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I shot him going through the other

1:02.4

way. So I double- going through the other way.

1:02.6

So I doubled him both ways.

1:05.4

But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.

1:09.2

I got him on.

1:11.5

All right now, we're going to teach him a loss.

1:15.0

I'm just an old guy that likes to fish and I'm not quitting yet.

1:19.0

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. well who the hell do you think you are? Sue App?

1:22.6

And I said that's exactly who I am.

1:24.8

Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well-preserved body,

1:31.8

but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke thoroughly torn out

1:36.0

thoroughly used up proclaiming wildly wow what a ride. There's something fishy going on here. All right Joe Rodriguez, the greatest friend of the poon. I don't know if anybody who loves the poon more than you.

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