Episode 60: Glenn Flutie - Pursuit of Excellence

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Glenn Flutie is one of our sports greatest fisherman with accolades few have. He won the prestigious Fall Fly Invitational Bonefish tournament when he was 16. His passion for them was relentless and when he found his footing with Tarpon, he became an obsessive predator. He would eventually win an unprecedented five Gold Cup Tarpon tournaments in five years. He was a prodigy, born with fisherman’s blood. His father was an offshore Captain, but sea sickness kept Glenn in the bonefish’s shallow water. Raised in the fishing capital of the world, Islamorada, he chased fish every day. With a fly rod in his locker for quick access he’d often be found casting to tailing bonefish instead of attending class. His friends, Timmy Klein and Craig Brewer, too were on the water daily and became iconic guides. On todays podcast, Glenn walks us through a gifted life of living on an island and chasing the greatest game fish in the world, his tarpon mentor Harry Spear, and his methodology on being one of the greatest tarpon anglers of all time.

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0:00.0	As a young man, Glenn Flutie moved to the keys to live with his father, while most kids have a playground of grass, balls, and bicycles,
0:16.0	fluties with shallow water and tailing fish. His obsession stood out with his fellow fishing
0:21.6	buddies, his expertise accelerated and at the young age of 16 he won one of bone fishing's greatest prizes, the fall fly invitational.
0:31.0	He was a prodigy and everyone knew it. Eventually he ended up winning five
0:36.0	Tarpin Gold Cups, five in a row. Then in tournament retirement, he won it as a guide
0:41.7	with good friend Tom Siska, the only person to do that.
0:45.0	He's had a heck of a rise to greatness.
0:48.0	We hope you enjoy his story. And we broke everything, we broke lines, we broke cooks, we broke rods, we broke our minds, we broke our minds, we broke marriages, we broke the whole thing.
1:08.0	We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and whoever had the biggest pair of
1:14.1	pain he's won the pot.
1:16.1	I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I shot him going through
1:19.6	the other way so I double-lunged him both ways. But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
1:26.0	I got him on.
1:29.0	All right now, I'm going to teach him a lasso.
1:31.0	I'm just an old guy that likes to fish and I'm not quitting yet.
1:37.0	And he said, well, who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
1:40.0	And I said, that's exactly who I am.
1:43.0	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well-preserved body,
1:48.0	but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly torn out, thoroughly used up, proclaiming wildly
1:57.0	W. Wow! What a ride!
2:00.0	There's something fizzy going on here.
2:04.4	Are you good?
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