Episode 7: Sandy Moret - Teacher, Champion Angler, Conservationist

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Sandy Moret is a successful, passionate, driven man. Once he sold his beer business and started chasing Bonefish in skinny water, his after burners kicked in and Sandy was re-invented. He was a dominate figure in the most prestigious Bonefish and Tarpon tournaments with 8 wins. In 1993, he opened one of the most premier saltwater fly shops in the world, and as a teacher at heart, has operated his Florida fly fishing school for 30 years! But his finest hour could be as a conservationist. In 2018, Sandy Moret was awarded the Fly Fisherman Magazine - Sage Conservationist of the Year and was presented the Orvis Company Lifetime Achievement Award for his work with the Now or Neverglades movement. He currently sits on the Board of Directors for Bonefish & Tarpon Trust and Bullsugar.org. On a windy day in June, Sandy invited us over to his fish house in Islamorada to record this episode of the podcast. Walking by one of the most beautiful, old school Hells Bay Professionals lying in his garage, we entered Sandy’s casa. His home was covered with Millard Wells paintings and numerous tournament trophies. We chatted for 58 minutes about fishing Islamorada in the 70’s, what tournament fishing meant to him, and his celebrated work as a conservationist. Sandy's Fly Store - Florida Keys Outfitters

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0:00.0	Sandy Moret was born with fishing in his veins and along with his friend Flip
0:06.8	Palat they decided they'd leave the business world and venture onto the flats
0:11.3	where they both found gold.
0:14.0	Sandy was a game changer in many ways, and many feel his greatest hour was as a conservationist.
0:20.7	Today, he speaks about his heartfelt passions and where they led him.
0:25.0	We broke everything, we broke lines, we broke cooks, we broke everything we broke lines we broke cooks we broke rods we broke our minds
0:37.3	We broke marriages we broke the whole thing
0:42.4	We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and
0:46.1	whoever had the biggest pair of pain he's when the pot. I knocked another arrow and
0:50.8	he turned around the other way and I shot him going through the other way so I
0:54.2	doubled them both ways. But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government
0:59.5	cut. 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.
1:09.0	And he said, well, who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
1:13.9	And I said, that's exactly who I am.
1:17.2	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well-preserved
1:21.6	body, but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,
1:25.7	thoroughly torn out, thoroughly used up proclaiming wildly, wow! what a ride.
1:35.6	There's something f be in your home. It's always been a privilege and an honor to be in your presence. I just remember a long time ago and I mentioned this before
1:54.8	30 some years ago with Walker's K you know on TV every Sunday morning I'd get up and
2:00.8	watch Flip and I'd want to go on that adventure. And the way he spoke and the poetry that he's saying, that show sang and the fish that you guys caught and you were a big presence on that show. And I remember the first time I came to the keys I had to go to the you know
2:17.3	Florida Keys outfitters looking for the hippie I was calling where are you hippie?
2:21.5	Because I knew you were a hippie and you are. But anyway it's thank you for allowing us to come into your home and walking through your home all these great pieces of art, these Miller dwells from all the terms that you've won.
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