Episode 54: Capt. Carl Ball - AWOL Fishing

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

As I stated in the intro to this podcast, Carl Ball has been a true brother for many years. I first got connected with Carl from a fellow guide, John Glorieux, as I was looking for a camera boat operator for my fishing TV show at the time, “Sportsman’s Journal.” Carl and I instantly hit it off, and he was the first to show me how exhilarating tarpon fishing with mullet can be. We would light up a cigar, catch bait in back finger canals, and troll under the metropolitan bridges for the massive silver demons lurking below. The bites were like underwater fireworks that gave me a direct adrenaline rush down my spine. For the next number of years, our friendship tightened and we began poling each other around in the Everglades and the Lower Keys. Carl Ball was born and raised in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His passion for fishing came from his grandfather, who was an offshore charter boat captain based out of the Boca Raton/ Fort Lauderdale area in the 1950’s. At the tender age of ten, Carl had an aluminum Jon Boat with a four horse power motor and would explore the canals and waterways in his backyard. He and his buddies would transport their boats on land via shopping carts. As his fishing prowess inevitably grew, he started mating on offshore boats and eventually got his captains license. For the last twenty years, Carl has been one of the top guides in Fort Lauderdale and Biscayne Bay. I don’t know of anyone who loves to fish more than this guy. Raining, blowing 30mph, cold as Nantucket - Carl is fishing. He lives, sleeps, and breaths fishing. He doesn’t care if it’s a redfish, black tip shark, or permit, his desire just to be out on the water inspires me. He is the epitome of the phrase, “you don’t know unless you go!” We hope you enjoy his story!

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0:00.0	Carl Ball is a true brother. He's been a part of my world ever since I was producing
0:08.4	fishing shows 30 years ago. As a camera boat operator, we traveled a lot and when not filming we fished and smoked
0:16.3	cigars.
0:17.8	He and I fished with President Bush.
0:19.8	He honeymooned in Aspen and stayed at my home. He's been one of the top Biscayne Bay guides for decades and knows the Everglades as well as the lower keys.
0:29.0	Here's his story. We hope you enjoy. We hope you enjoy.
0:34.0	We broke everything.
0:39.0	We broke lines, we broke cooks, we broke rods, we broke our minds, we broke marriages, we broke the whole thing.
0:50.4	We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and whoever had the biggest pair of panties went to pot.
0:57.0	I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I shot him going through the other way.
1:01.0	So I double-lunged him both ways. But it was nothing for us to
1:05.3	paddle an air mattress out into government cut. I got him on. All right now we're going to teach him a lot so.
1:14.0	I'm just an old guy that likes to fish, I'm not quitting yet.
1:18.0	And he said, well, who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
1:21.0	And I said, that's exactly who I am. Life's journey to the grave should not be
1:26.9	one arriving with a pretty well-preserved body but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke thoroughly torn out thoroughly
1:36.0	used up proclaiming wildly wow what a ride.
1:46.0	There's something fishy going on here. All right, Carl, as Nicki just made mentioned, we got to keep our faces this far away from the mic.
2:00.0	So here's the question.
2:02.0	Do you know where it should be or should I play a mono loop around your
2:05.3	earballs and around this mic? You good? I'll probably forget and back up.
2:10.1	But then we can probably take your headphones off and we're all good right? I bet I get all animated and back off of it a little bit.
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