Episode 44: Gordy Hill - Fishing's Unsung Hero

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Dr. Gordy Hill is one of the most remarkable men I’ve ever met! He was literally a pioneer in both the medical and fly fishing world. He was the 6th surgeon to perform hip replacements and at one time had done more hip replacement surgeries than anyone. He was nominated for a Nobel prize in medicine when he and Dr. Roger Haugen figured out how to successfully process a patients own blood for an infusion. This was monumental at the time because of the aids crisis. Gordy was not one of the first, but the first person to run his skiff behind Big Pine. His life in fishing was as large as his medical career. He was a global fisherman who captured a variety of great fish including large swordfish and marlin, and still holds a 15 pound world record bonefish caught in the Bahamas. Joe Brooks and his father, Pop Hill, were his mentors. His early tackle consisted of silk fly lines and gut leaders. He loved fishing alone and stood on the engine cowling to pole his skiff. Yes, Dr. Gordy Hill is one of our sports living legends, and at 91 (next month) he still has a memory bank sharper than a steak knife! We hope you all enjoy this one!

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0:00.0	On today's podcast, we welcome one of our sports real pioneers, Dr Gordy Hill.
0:09.0	He tells us about his medical life, his Nobel Prize nomination, and speaks with great detail about his early
0:15.9	years in the Lower Keys. Silk flylines, gut leaders, and pulling his skiff while standing
0:22.1	on the cowling were standard tools and practices
0:25.2	of his early years on the water.
0:27.8	He eventually made enough money to chase the world's great fish.
0:32.2	Sit back and listen to some wonderful storytelling from one of
0:35.7	our sports greatest living legends, Dr. Gordy Hill.
0:41.6	We've broken We broke everything, we broke lines, we broke hooks, we broke rods, we broke our minds, we broke
0:50.5	our minds, we broke marriages, we broke the whole thing.
0:56.7	We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls
0:59.8	and whoever had the biggest pair of pain he was in the pot.
1:03.0	I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I shot him going through the other way.
1:08.0	I double-lunged him both ways.
1:10.0	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
1:15.0	I got him on. All right now. We're going to teach him a lot so.
1:20.0	I'm just an old guy that likes to fish and I'm not quitting yet.
1:24.0	And he said, well, who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
1:27.0	And I said, that's exactly who I am.
1:30.0	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well preserved body,
1:36.0	but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly torn out,
1:41.0	thoroughly used up, proclaiming wildly. Wow! What a ride!
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