Episode 55: Capt. Dave Denkert - Snook, Redfish, Splash-less Casts

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Born in Illinois in 1955, Dave Denkert had a big life ahead of him in fishing. Two years later, after his family moved to Miami, they found themselves located on the doorstep of some of the greatest fishing on earth. Soft spoken and kind, he eventually found his calling in the backcountry of Florida Bay. His expertise was exposed with his tournament success, highlighted with numerous wins in the Redbone series and a Spring Fly Bonefish invitational. His family too, dove head first into the sport he loved. His wife, Linda, and daughter, Brooke, also found themselves not only passionate, but successful in the tournament fray. On todays podcast, Dave gets into the details of how his genius was refined, and he doesn’t hold back. When I asked him how he’d like to be known, he said “I like to teach!” With mentors like Chico Fernandez and Stu Apte, he learned well and is respected by all! We hope you enjoy... Thanks so much for coming on, Dave!

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0:00.0	Dave Denkert has been an island rod of backcountry guide most his life and with
0:07.6	many wins in the prestigious tournaments held there. The nuances of fishing for any
0:12.4	species successfully are
0:14.0	plethoraic and complicated and to be great at it with any consistency,
0:18.9	you have to have refined your craft over decades of examining tidbits of your fish's habitat and behavior.
0:25.3	Today, Dinkert leaves us down the proverbial rabbit hole,
0:28.7	where he found the underlying details of his genius.
0:48.0	We broke everything, we broke lines, we broke cooks, we broke rods, we broke our minds, we broke marriages, we broke the whole thing. We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and whoever had the biggest
0:54.4	pair of pain he's went to pot.
0:56.7	I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I shot him going through
1:00.2	the other way.
1:01.2	So I doubled them both ways. but it was nothing for us to
1:04.7	paddle an air mattress out into government cut. I got him on all right now we're
1:10.6	gonna teach him a lesson. I'm just an old guy that likes to fish and I'm not
1:15.4	quitting yet. And he said well who the hell do you think you are Sue App and I said that's
1:21.4	exactly who I am.
1:23.0	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well-preserved body,
1:29.0	but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,
1:32.8	thoroughly torn out, thoroughly used up,
1:36.1	proclaiming wildly, wow, what a ride.
1:45.0	There's something fish busy going on here. Well, the milling is going on here.
1:47.0	Well, the Mill House is in the Dankert's house. Dave, how are you buddy?
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