Episode 84: Lloyd Wruble - Gatekeeper of the Glades

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Lloyd Wruble is a successful, retired oral and facial surgeon by trade, and one of the kindest people you’ll ever meet. He’s a soft spoken man with a passion for fishing, not just fishing, but backcountry, Everglades fishing in South Florida. He has fished the nooks and crannies of the Everglades for decades. It’s a labyrinthine waterway of creeks, black mangroves, bays, cypress trees, pines and sable palms that weave in and out and around forever and ever. Inside its world of salt and brackish water swim snook, redfish, tarpon, bass and a multitude of other species. It’s beautiful and pristine, a sacred sanctuary! This is where Lloyd has given his soul. His relationship with the glades was initially cemented with the late pioneer, Herman Lucerne. He took Wruble deeper into the unknown and became Lloyd’s mentor and great friend. Herman showed him this remote country like only Herman could, as he knew it better than anyone else... When Herman died in hurricane Andrew, Lloyd was crushed. He’d lost a brother, then devoted much of his time to preserving the life that Herman lived. On today’s podcast, Lloyd Wruble speaks of many things few people has ever seen or know about.

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0:00.0	Lloyd Rubel's life changed when he met the legendary Herman Lucerne, known as the last Frontiersman.
0:13.0	Lucerne knew the Everglades better than anyone
0:16.0	and passed his invaluable knowledge onto Rubel.
0:19.0	On today's podcast, we sit with Lloyd
0:22.0	as he takes us into places few have ever gone.
0:25.8	We hope you enjoy.
0:27.7	We broke everything, we broke we broke cooks we broke rods we broke our minds we broke
0:38.7	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.
0:50.0	I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I shot him going through the other way so I double-lunged him both ways.
0:56.0	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
1:01.0	I got'm on.
1:03.0	All right now, we're going to teach him a lesson.
1:07.0	I'm just an old guy that likes to fish.
1:09.0	I'm not quitting yet.
1:10.0	And he said, well, who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
1:14.0	And I said, that's exactly who I am.
1:17.0	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well-preserved body, but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,
1:26.4	thoroughly torn out, thoroughly used up proclaiming wildly.
1:31.7	Wow! What a ride!
1:34.0	There's something fishy going on here. Lloyd is so great to have you on the podcast. I've known you for a long time.
1:50.0	Your reputation is impeccable. It's deep with your relationship with the
1:56.0	Everglades and we'll talk about your induction into the BTT circle of honor here in a little bit, but let's just start with your house in your backyard.
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