Episode 91: Jay Grant - The Greatest Permit Fisherman You've Never Heard Of

Mill House Podcast

Mill House

Wilderness, Sports, Leisure, Education, Hobbies

5 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The greatest permit fisherman could possibly be a man you’ve never heard of. He’s a man that has caught over 260 permit by himself either out of his kayak or wading. Jay Grant never had the funds to hire guides or mentors. He dissected the tides and popular permit flats from Key Largo to the distant flats west of Key West all on his own. He has struggled much of his life with alcohol and drugs and even spent some time incarcerated. There, he learned how to wood work which gave him some money in his pocket and a chance to get ahead. He’s lived out of his truck for years and now a sailboat near Key West. On today’s podcast, Jay reveals many things he rarely speaks about….. We hope you enjoy!

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0:00.0	For decades we've all heard about this guy who catches a pile of permit in his kayak.
0:11.4	He was kind of a ghost who would be seen off Marathon one day,
0:15.4	then near Boca Grande passed the next, and then the Marquesne a week later.
0:19.9	We thought we have to get this guy's story and through one of our good friends we did find him.
0:25.0	Jay Grant is his name and having caught 260 permit by himself has to be one of the most interesting people you'll ever meet and he is.
0:34.8	We hope you enjoy his story.
0:37.7	We broke everything, we broke lines, broke cooks we broke rods we broke our minds we broke
0:48.6	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 when the pot.
1:00.0	I knocked another arrow and he turned around the other way and I shot him going through the other way.
1:04.3	So I doubled him both ways.
1:06.2	But it was nothing for us to paddle an air mattress out into government cut.
1:10.4	I got him on. All right now we're going to teach him a lesson. I'm just an old
1:17.6	guy that likes to fish and I'm not quitting yet. And he said well who the hell do you
1:22.3	think you are Sue App? And I said, well, who the hell do you think you are, Sue App?
1:24.0	And I said, that's exactly who I am.
1:27.0	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
1:36.3	thoroughly torn out thoroughly used up proclaiming wildly wow What a ride!
1:44.0	There's something fizzy going on here. J Grant, it is a real honor to have you on the Mill House podcast today and I'm so glad that you decided to you know jump in on all this
2:05.8	and give us your life story because I'm going to start this off by saying we
2:09.9	know all the great permit fishermen in the world by Dale Brown, Charlie Kasey, a lot of people might not know him, Nathaniel Linville.
2:17.5	If I'm not mistaken, you've caught I think 250 permit higher 60 permit
2:26.7	260 permit I haven't fishing going on 10 years out of your kayak waiting all but six six and we're off boat all the rest were waiting in kayak
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