Episode 59: Gary & Teresa Register - "Red Man"

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Born in Miami in 1935 Gary Register would travel into the keys fishing with his family until he moved there in 1965. It was a small fishing village back then - everyone knew each other. He’d play softball with Eddie Wightman and the young Klein boys. Clarence Lowe mentored Register and inspired him to be a guide. Clarence showed him the nuances of the profession and eventually Gary became one of the best. He purchased the La Siesta hotel and would spend day and night guiding. He was known to be a hard working guide, and throughout time started to fish with some of the better fly anglers. Many also considered Gary to be a loner, but big hearted nonetheless. He also explains how he wasn’t resentful when others started coming into town to guide, as most of them were “Stuck in the Mud” guides. He and Jimmy Bell Jr. hoisted the Gold Cup trophy three times. He later was gifted a trip to Alaska by a client and fell in love. Gary would eventually move there to get out of the heat of the Keys and take advantage of the remote serenity. After fishing so hard for so long (35 years), burn out was a real thing. Gary thinks often of the fishing world he once lived in and misses how it used to be. But, at 87, he’s found new footing and passions in Alaska. He wants to be remembered as a nice man and a wonderful husband!

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0:00.0	On today's podcast, if we take a step back in time to the late 70s, when the people were
0:10.8	scarce and the ocean was yours.
0:13.0	We're with Gary Register today who is known as a hard-working loner
0:18.0	who would eventually win the Super Bowl of Tarpin fishing three times with Jimmy Bell Jr. Today he speaks about the growing years of a sleepy
0:26.3	fishing village and the ocean that was once alive and well. We broke everything, we broke lines, we broke cooks, we broke rods, we broke our minds,
0:42.2	our minds, we broke marriages, we broke the whole thing.
0:48.8	We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and whoever had the biggest pair of
0:53.5	pain he's won the pot. I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other
0:57.5	way and I shot him going through the other way so I double-lunged him both ways.
1:01.1	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
1:07.1	I got him on all right now. We're gonna teach him a lot so. I'm just an old guy that likes to fish and I'm not quitting yet. And he said, well who
1:17.1	the hell do you think you are, Sue App? And I said that's exactly who I am. Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well-preserved body,
1:28.0	but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly out thoroughly used up proclaiming wildly wow what a ride There's something busy going on here.
1:44.0	Well, Gary and Trisa, thank you so much for coming down to the millhouse.
1:57.0	Yeah, I have thanks for inviting this.
1:59.0	I mean, by gosh, what a morning?
2:00.5	You left Gainesville at 3 in the morning and now you arrive here at like 930.
2:04.7	And the maze you're still awake. And we're heading to the keys. You're tough critters man.
2:11.8	Well we're going down and spend a week down there, I think.
2:15.0	Yeah.
2:16.0	What's your life like now?
2:18.0	I mean, you're what, 81?
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