Episode 62: Howard Croston - World Fly Fishing Champion

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

I first met Howard Croston 14 years ago when I was hired by Hardy to help with their salt water rods and reels. Howard was their product developer and designer, and we instantly hit it off. His knowledge and experience in the fresh water world was profound. He’d competed in 16 fresh water World Championships, and was the individual World Champion in 2019 when the English won the Team Championships. Howard had also competed in casting competitions and lectured about the spectrum of his craft. The Hardy design team was rewarded with immediate success in our quest in the salt. Our very first prototype rod and reel won the biggest tarpon tournament in the world, The Gold Cup, with Thane Morgan and Craig Brewer. With Howard’s tremendous knowledge, and Hardy’s commitment to winning, the victories kept coming and products keep improving. You can find these rods and reels in many of the boats you see on the flats of the Florida Keys and around the world, and in 2021 the top seven placed teams of the Gold Cup Tarpon Tournament were throwing Hardy. As we celebrate our 150th Anniversary at Hardy, I’m proud to have my friend, Howard Croston, on the podcast today to help us understand the the differences in fishing, casting, and building fly rods & reels.

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0:00.0	On today's podcast, we are joined by Howard Krostin, the main rod and reel designer for Hardy, to speak about the company's 150th
0:16.1	anniversary, what it takes to become world champion of freshwater trout fishing, and how to
0:21.5	improve your casting and fishing techniques on the water. We hope you enjoy.
0:26.0	We broke everything. We broke lines, we broke hooks, we broke everything we broke lines we broke cooks we broke rods we broke our minds
0:37.6	we broke marriages we broke the whole thing we came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls
0:46.0	and whoever had the biggest pair of pain he's when to pot. I knocked another
0:50.5	arrow and he turned around the other way and I shot him going through the other way.
0:54.0	So I double-lunged him both ways.
0:56.7	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
1:00.0	I got him on. All right now, I'm going to teach him a lot so. I'm just an old guy that likes to fish. I'm not quitting yet.
1:09.2	And he said, well who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
1:14.0	And I said, that's exactly who I am.
1:17.0	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well-preserved body,
1:22.0	but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,
1:25.9	thoroughly torn out, thoroughly used up proclaiming wildly, wow! What a ride!
1:34.0	There's something fishy going on here. You got your cough medication rolling?
1:45.0	You got your cough medication rolling?
1:48.0	Mickey, you already hit that red button?
1:51.0	We got Howard in the house, Howard Crossin.
1:53.4	How you do, man?
1:54.4	Welcome to the mill house.
1:55.8	Awesome.
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