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Mill House Podcast

Episode 73: Ted Juracsik - "TIBOR"

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5973 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Ted Juracsik, the creator of Tibor Reels, has one of the most interesting and inspiring stories I know. As a young Hungarian in Budapest, he was the smartest of his friends. At age 17, he was the youngest Hungarian ever to be awarded Master Papers and went to work in a bicycle factory. Not long after the Hungarian revolution began and was in full swing against the Russians and Soviet Union, Ted escaped to Austria. Leaving his family and his sister behind, the big world of the unknown was before him. Eventually, he immigrated to the the United States and started a successful tool and dye business. One day in the World Wide Sportsman store, he met Billy Pate who needed a better fly reel to fight the monster Tarpon he was chasing in Homosassa. Ted told him he could design a better reel for him and the rest is history. The Tibor Reel company became the salt water fly reel of choice for all the world record chasers for the next few decades. On todays podcast, we travel with Ted through his legendary life and the hardships along the way.

Transcript

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On today's podcast we sit with Ted Jurassic and hear about his remarkable journey as he escaped the Hungarian Revolution.

0:15.0

Immigrated to the United States and eventually designed the T-Bour Reals,

0:20.0

the go-to saltwater fly reel for many of the early icons that chase the biggest world records for decades.

0:26.7

This one is for the ages.

0:45.0

We broke everything, we broke lines, we broke hooks, we broke rods, 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 pair of pain he's went to pot.

0:52.0

I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other

0:54.8

way and I shot him going through the other way so I double-lung them both ways. But it was nothing for us to

1:00.7

paddle an air mattress out into government cut.

1:03.0

I got him on.

1:05.0

All right now, we're going to teach him a lesson.

1:08.0

I'm just an old guy that likes to fish and I'm not quitting yet.

1:12.0

And he said, well, who the hell do you think? old guy that likes to fish, I'm not quitting yet.

1:13.0

And he said, well, who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?

1:17.0

And I said, that's exactly who I am.

1:20.0

Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well preserved body,

1:25.0

but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly torn out,

1:30.0

thoroughly used up, proclaiming wildly. Wow! What a ride!

1:37.0

There's something fizzy going on here. Ted, thank you so much for allowing us to come over to the Everglades and to visit with you and your you

1:55.0

and to come over to the Everglades and to visit with you and your great story,

1:56.0

your beautiful home here right on the island.

1:59.0

It's been a while. I saw you, I think a year ago at the BTT,

2:02.0

circle of honor. Right. I saw you I think a year ago at the BTT Circle of Honor, but every time I see you I feel it's a special moment because of your human success story is outstanding. You're 84, you're here on the island, tell me a

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