Episode 63: Capt. Scott Collins & David Dalu - The Game Changers

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Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

It’s only fitting that we air this podcast with Dr. David Dalu and Capt. Scott Collins the same week as the 2022 Gold Cup Tarpon Tournament. In 2008, Scott and David won all three major tarpon tournaments; The Gold Cup, The Don Hawley and The Golden Fly. It was the first time anyone had pulled off the triple crown in one year. It was also a confirmation that their wins in the previous year’s Gold Cup and Don Hawley were no fluke. They knew their methodology of catching sensitive ocean side tarpon swimming in clear water was under everyone else’s radar (which would soon be blow wide open). The key elements to this recipe was actually formulated by a few earlier moving parts before it got to Dalu and Collins and because of the significance of their success, history deserves to know how it all unfolded and by whom. Bring in steelhead/tarpon angler Neil Light, Capt. Albert Ponzoa, inventor Carl Anderson and Key West fireman, Carl Wagner, all adding to the success of what Collins and Dalu perfected. Who knew what and when? And what about all the refined techniques of their little secret that blew the common tarpon techniques deep into the history pages. With their newfound information, Dalu won five tournaments in three years, and Collins has one of the greatest records of any guide with 8 tarpon wins, 5 permit wins and a bonefish victory in 9 years.... On today's podcast, 14 years after their 2008 sweep, we speak about that magical year, the build up, and the players that participated in how the most current tarpon techniques evolved! This is the story of one of the greatest tarpon teams in history. We hope you enjoy!

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0:17.0	All great successes have a long-winded story behind the madness of research, refinements, and practice before a victory becomes a reality. Minds race, sleep is lost, and dreams are made possible only through years of a driven workforce that often includes other people than yourself, such as the great success of Tarpanangler Dr David D'Lue and Captain Scott Collins. Their initial quest was to just compete at a high level.
0:37.0	Be respectable. But for a period of three years, they ended up being the most dominant team to win the biggest tarp and fly
0:44.2	tournaments in the world, let alone all three majors in one year.
0:48.3	unequivocally they changed the game of tarp and fishing on fly.
0:53.0	Here's their story.
0:54.5	We hope you enjoy.
0:58.5	We broke everything. We broke. We broke everything we broke lines we broke
1:05.0	cooks we broke rods we broke our minds we broke marriages we broke the whole thing.
1:14.0	We came up the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and whoever had the biggest
1:19.2	pair of pain he's went to pot.
1:21.5	I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I shot him going
1:24.8	through the other way.
1:25.8	So I double-lunged him both ways.
1:28.4	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
1:31.8	I cut him out right now. I'm going to teach him a
1:36.2	less. I'm just an old guy that likes to fish. I'm not quitting yet. And he said, well who who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
1:45.0	And I said, that's exactly who I am.
1:48.0	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well preserved body, but rather
1:55.0	skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly torn out, thoroughly used up proclaiming
2:01.8	wildly, wow, what arise! use up proclaiming wildly. Wow! What a ride!
2:07.0	There's something fishy going on here. Dave Delooe, Scott Collins, two of the guys who changed the game of oceanside tarpen fishing.
2:25.0	Without question, you guys changed how the game has been played.
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