Episode 67: Steve Kantner - "The Land Captain"

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Steve Kantner has one of the greatest fishing spirits I know of, and his spectrum of ability on and off the water is legendary. For many decades he’s been known as “The Land Captain”, fishing on foot, out of his car, in the surf, off piers, canal banks and canoes, but sadly the great Captain has been grounded, if you will, because of the debilitating Parkinson’s disease. Steve is famous in South Florida, and was on my radar well before I produced two television shows with him. The finished product was one of the most popular of the thirteen we delivered to the network that year. He was brilliant, informative, humorous and he was good on his promises. We caught a pile of fish driving around in his land vessel, his car. He’s been predominantly a writer most his life, and has written for many South Florida fishing publications. He also has a technical background with a degree in science. With all this in his back pocket, he’s authored four books and wrote the history of tarpon chapter for, A Passion for Tarpon. Steve is a fascinating friend who has always been there for many of us, and it gives me great pleasure to have him on our podcast today...

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0:00.0	Steve Cantner has been a close friend ever since we did a couple of television
0:09.6	shows together three decades ago. He's smart, fun, and incredibly creative. How else would a man that
0:17.4	calls himself the land captain maintain a healthy livelihood guiding out of his car.
0:23.8	On today's podcast, we cover the vibrant life he led fishing off beaches, peers, and
0:29.2	the great Tamiami Trail.
0:31.3	We hope you enjoy.
0:50.0	We broke everything. We broke lines, we broke cooks, we broke rods, we broke our minds, our cooks, we broke our minds, we broke marriages, we broke the whole thing. We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and whoever had the biggest
0:54.4	pair of pain he's went to Pock.
0:56.6	I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I shot him going through the other
1:00.4	way.
1:01.4	So I double-lunged him both ways. But it was nothing for us to
1:04.6	paddle an air mattress out into government cut. I got him out. All right now we're
1:10.5	going to teach him a lesson. I'm just an old guy that likes to fish and I'm not
1:15.3	quitting yet. And he said well who the hell do you think you are Sue App? And I said that's
1:21.4	exactly who I am.
1:23.0	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well-preserved body,
1:29.0	but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke thoroughly torn out thoroughly used up
1:35.8	proclaiming wildly wow what a ride
1:41.6	there's something fishizzy going on here.
1:45.0	Steve, I'm going on here.
1:47.0	Steve, you're a good pal man. It's great to have you on the show.
1:57.0	Likewise.
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