Episode 83: Bill Bishop - Dream Chaser

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Bill Bishop grew up the way we wished we all could, in the woods surrounded by nature, with a supporting, loving family. Over the course of his life, Turkeys and Tarpon would became paramount for his adventurous heart. His father had a lease where family and friends hunted deer and gobblers. At a young age it was soon obvious, Bill was born a hunter & gatherer at heart. He learned how to speak to the birds like no one else. Bishop was extremely gifted with everything he touched. Not too long ago, Flip told me that he was the most talented person he’s ever met. He’s an artist, angler, business man, author, and "that guy" that can fix anything or build anything like his own boat, which he did. The very first fish artwork that I bought was a tarpon, that Bill had painted... Yes, he paints beautifully. His three books are from his deep-rooted life in the woods and on the ocean; High Rollers, Double Haul, and Cracker Jack. These tales take you on a wonderful ride with all images drawn by our guest today. But, with his grandchildren calling him, “Poon," it's evident that chasing Megalops was his favorite quest. Bill Bishop is 75 years old with the energy of a young deer. On todays podcast, he lets us into his extraordinary journey which gets better after surviving a heart attack...

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0:00.0	Bill Bishop loves TARPin, a lot, so much he's dedicated a large part of his life to them. He's chased them for four decades. He's painted them, sculpted them, written books and articles too about his beloved fish, and he engaged in the mass efforts to save them from those in Boca Grand who
0:26.0	abused this sacred pass and the fish that harbored in its deep currents.
0:30.5	Today we visit him and hear why he feels his heart attack was the best
0:36.2	thing that ever happened to him.
0:39.4	We broke everything, we broke lines, we broke everything we broke lines we broke hooks we broke rods we broke our minds we broke
0:50.0	marriages we broke the whole thing. We came up the idea of going out that night and
0:57.2	chasing girls and whoever had the biggest pair of pain he's went to pot.
1:00.5	I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I shot him
1:04.4	going through the other way so I double-lunged him both ways. But it was nothing for us to
1:09.6	paddle an air mattress out into government cut. I got him on.
1:14.0	All right now, we're going to teach him a lesson.
1:17.0	I'm just an old guy that likes to fish.
1:20.0	I'm not quitting yet.
1:22.0	And he said, well, who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
1:25.0	And I said that's exactly who I am.
1:28.0	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well preserved body but rather
1:35.0	skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke thoroughly torn out thoroughly used up proclaiming
1:41.8	wildly wow what arrived early use up proclaiming wildly. Wow! What a ride!
1:47.0	There's something fishy going on here. Bill Bishop, man. It's great to see you. It's great to see you.
2:00.0	It's great.
2:01.0	It's been a long time. Forever, you've had a huge presence in the TARPan world.
2:07.0	You're an artist.
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