As a young man, fishing was in Ray Rosier's blood, and decades later he became one of the greatest bill fishermen to ever fly a kite in South Florida.

Having worked as a full-time captain over the last 40 years and with 30 tournament

wins alongside his conservation efforts, he has cemented himself

into the upcoming IGFA captains and crew Hall of Fame.

There is no one more deserving to be receiving this honor, and you'll find out why in this next hour.

We broke everything, we broke lines lines we broke cooks 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.

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.

But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.

I got him on.

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

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

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

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

Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well-preserved body body but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke

thoroughly torn out thoroughly used up proclaiming wildly! What a ride!

There's something fizzy going on here. Ray Rosier, it is such a pleasure and an honor to have you. I mean, mostly we do fly fishing people and we did skip Smith an offshore guy but you know to have you in the

podcast is is really a treasure and thank you not only that you're being inducted into the IJFA captain and crew Hall of Fame this year

So what's that mean to you?

Means I'm getting old

But you did a lot of things well and let me define what that means.

So the International Game Fish Association, they annually recognize captains and guides or crew members who have made extraordinary

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