Episode 66: Capt. Tommy Locke - Passion for the Poon

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Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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A cool thirty three some years ago I fished the sacred water of Homosassa, Florida with Tommy Locke. There, I met a young man I’d soon realize was one of the young, passionate guides of those flats. Initially he was just a name, as I was to him, but we fished hard together and I really dug being in Tommy's presence. We chased the poon in Homo for a few years then I went to the Keys, where I felt I’d see more fish, and have a better chance of upping my game. The poon house is a small house, where everyone knows each other or knows of the others. Well, Tommy became one of the great guides of Homosassa and Charlotte Harbor, before moving to the Florida Keys. He was hungry for new water and challenges. He started fishing the three big tarpon tournaments including the Gold Cup. But what he found was his deepening love for conservation! The poon would never go away, but he started working closely with Captains for Clean water and Bonefish Tarpon Trust, where in 2019 he was awarded with the Flats Stewardship Award for his passion, enduring commitment, and tireless service in protecting and conserving our flats fishery. It has been a privilege and an honor to stand on the bow of Tommy Locke’s boat and an even greater one to stand next to him as a friend.... We hope you enjoy the fishing story behind this great man!

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0:00.0	On today's podcast we hang with one of the nicest guys we know as well as one of the
0:10.5	best guides in the West Coast Locke. I first met him when I
0:15.4	fished home of sassa 35 years ago. I didn't know much about tarpon fishing then,
0:20.4	but I wanted to learn and see the best tarpenhall in the world. And they were all there,
0:25.9	Pate, Evans, apt. The list goes on. But two were a few of the remaining great guides like
0:32.4	Al de Peric and many new young guns like
0:35.2	Locke who would be one of my first mentors. On today's podcast Tommy and I go back in
0:41.0	time and cover a big spectrum since our first days on the water.
0:45.8	We hope you enjoy.
0:48.6	We broke everything, we broke lines everything we broke lines we broke cooks we broke rods we broke our minds we broke
0:59.7	marriages we broke the whole thing.
1:04.6	We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and whoever had the biggest
1:09.0	pair of pain he's went to pot.
1:11.3	I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I shot him going
1:14.6	through the other way. So I double-lunged him both ways. But it was nothing for us to
1:19.2	paddle an air mattress out into government cut. I got him on.
1:24.0	All right now, we're going to teach him a lesson.
1:27.0	I'm just an old guy that likes to fish.
1:30.0	I'm not quitting yet.
1:31.0	And he said, well, who the hell do you think you are, Sue App? And I said that's exactly who I am.
1:38.7	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well preserved body but rather skid in
1:45.3	broadside in a cloud of smoke thoroughly torn out thoroughly used up proclaiming
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