Episode 90: Capt. Ian Slater - Determined to Win

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Ian Slater is one of the most likable people you’ll ever meet. He grew up with a massive desire to win at whatever he pursued. His busy life eventually filtered down to hockey and fishing. It was an equal balance until his college years when he gave hockey everything, and a few years later a professional career became a reality. While playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs farm team he sustained a bad injury. When he was recuperating, he decided he wanted to reinvent himself and pursue a life in the Keys where his dream fish lived. He was soon working at a fly shop, the Angling Company, and guiding the nearby flats of Key West. With his incredible work ethic he rapidly became one of the most successful permit guides. He soon moved his crosshairs to the tarpon game with great friend, Nathaniel Linville. Without a win, yet always in the top 4 placements, they have become one of the powerhouses of the tarpon tour. Today we talk about the nuances of chasing a dream….We hope you enjoy!

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0:00.0	Ian Slater is one of the hardest working most determined young guides in the Florida Keys.
0:12.0	On today's podcast we'll talk about his previous life in
0:14.8	hockey and his current focus on winning the biggest tournaments in saltwater fly
0:19.1	fishing. We broke everything. We broke lines, we broke hooks, we broke rods, we broke our minds, we broke our minds, we broke marriages we broke the whole thing
0:37.0	We came up with the idea of going out that night and chasing girls and whoever had the biggest pair of
0:42.5	pain he's won the pot.
0:44.6	I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way
0:46.8	and I shot him going through the other way.
0:48.6	So I double-lunged him both ways.
0:51.4	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
0:54.7	I got him on, all right now, we're going to teach him a lesson.
0:59.6	I'm just an old guy that likes to fish and I'm not quitting yet.
1:05.0	And he said, well, who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
1:08.0	And I said, that's exactly who I am.
1:12.0	Life's journey to the grave should not be one arriving with a pretty well preserved body,
1:17.0	but rather skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,
1:20.0	thoroughly torn out, thoroughly used up proclaiming wildly. Wow! What a ride!
1:30.0	There's something fishizzy going on here. Ian, you kind of new to the ball game here, aren't you with the tarpin scene and the
1:46.7	tournaments?
1:47.7	Yeah, yeah, very much so.
1:50.4	When did you come to Key West in the Tarpen world in becoming a guide?
1:56.3	I came down.
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