Episode 37: Tim Borski - Artist, Angler, Visionary

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Tim Borski is radically distinctive and without equal in many ways. His presence and demeanor commands attention in a low key wonderful way, his humor is flawless, always finding its mark. His attention to detail strays until the stars are in align then his genius awakens. For all the years I’ve known Tim, he’s chased his passions with outstanding success. He’s written for and has been profiled by national magazines. He’s a small fishing town icon that’s known in the world of fishing & hunting. He’s not only an award winning artist that crafts images on canvases, but his birds and fish are creations of an eye that sees the world in a very different way. His warblers demand you to look closer and see every grain of its existence, his fish are bold and brash, outstandingly unique to all fish art you’ve ever seen. He’s not an introvert, but likes to be alone or with his son fishing. He’s one of the best fisherman on the planet. His flies are of his own design and are commercially sold. And as a Ophiophilist, he loves big snakes! So too does his son, Joseph who runs his own skiff, ties his own bugs and catches as many fish as most professional guides and top anglers. On todays podcast we have a welcome diversion and jump into the exceptionally different life of the beloved Tim Borski.

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0:00.0	I heard of Tim Borski well before I met him and saw him too in his art form.
0:07.6	His reputation was that of intrigue.
0:10.3	He was doing things we'd never heard of, hanging from bridges and handlining giants with fins.
0:17.0	When I first walked into his home on Craig Key many years ago, my eyes spun with all the nuances that surround people with an expansive life of
0:25.2	imagination. His brilliantly painted warbler birds were outrageous.
0:29.9	Canvices, brushes, and rods filled a disheveled room.
0:34.0	I knew I was in the presence of a busy mind.
0:37.0	Many years later, with a great spectrum of success and notoriety,
0:41.0	Tim Borski has sought out for his many attributes. People want his art, his
0:46.4	flies, his company on a boat, his storied tales of reptile chasing, or just to be in the presence of one of the most eccentric people I've ever known.
0:55.0	I know you'll enjoy this time with Tim as much as we did.
1:01.0	We broke everything, we broke
1:05.0	everything, we broke lines, we broke hooks, we broke rods, we broke our minds, we broke marriages,
1:12.0	we broke the whole thing.
1:16.3	We came up with the idea of going out that night
1:18.5	and chasing girls and whoever had the biggest pair of
1:21.0	pain he's went to pot. I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I shot him going through the other way.
1:27.0	So I doubled him both ways.
1:29.0	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
1:34.0	I got him out.
1:36.0	All right now, I'm going to teach him a lot so.
1:39.0	I'm just an old guy that likes to fish.
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