Episode 33: Capt. Dale Perez - Home Runs to World Records

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Dale Perez is in his 54th year as a fishing guide. He was born to compete with a life filled of sports, but gravitated to baseball where he eventually played in the big leagues with the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago White Socks, and the Minnesota Twins. Sliding into second base he tore the ligaments in his knee and a new career in fishing was born. He was always driven to high standards and as a tarpon guide, he hit his longest home run catching two great world record Tarpon with the iconic Tom Evans. But as much as he's known for his tarpon prowess, his anglers have caught an amazing 869 permit on fly! At his spry age of 74, he still has an insatiable level of passion for this sport that keeps him young at heart. I fished two Gold Cup's with Dale and find myself spending hours with him talking about the second passion dear to both of us - Bowhunting! You'll have to look long and hard to find a more serious, driven man. Dale Perez has a career that is well known in our world. Thanks so much for coming on, Dale!

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0:16.8	Over the years I've seen, heard of and gotten to know Dale Perez, an iconic guide who has amassed an insanely huge number of permit on fly, 869. But I was captured by his tarpin magic.
0:19.8	His two legendary tarpin records with Tom Evans in Homassassa was huge at the time.
0:26.3	But most people didn't know he was drafted into the majors as a baseball player.
0:31.6	His career was cut short with a knee injury that redirected his path to the Florida
0:35.8	Keys where he found himself near the ground floor of saltwater fly fishing. We became close friends over the years and eventually fished two
0:45.3	gold cups together. His 53 years as a fishing guide brings a brilliant story to
0:51.6	our podcast today. We hope you enjoy it. We hope you enjoy it. We broke everything we broke lines we broke
1:03.5	cooks we broke rods we broke our minds we broke marriages we broke the whole thing
1:12.4	We came up the idea of going out that night and chasing girls
1:16.0	and whoever had the biggest pair of pain he's when the pot. I knocked another arrow and
1:20.9	he turned around the other way and I shot him going through the other way.
1:24.0	So I double-lunged him both ways.
1:26.0	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
1:30.0	I got him on.
1:32.0	All right now, we're going to teach him a lot so. I'm just an old guy that likes to fish. I'm not quitting yet.
1:39.0	And he said, well who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
1:44.0	And I said, that's exactly who I am.
1:47.2	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving
1:50.0	with a pretty well-preserved body, but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,
1:55.8	thoroughly torn out, thoroughly used up proclaiming wildly, wow! What a ride!
2:05.0	There's something fishy going on here. Well, we are with the great Dale Perez today.
2:17.0	Dale, you've been guiding for 52 years.
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