Monte Burke - Lords of the Fly

Tom Rowland Podcast

Waypoint TV

Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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This week I sat down with Monte Burke to discuss his new book, Lords of the Fly. I was lucky enough to get an early copy of the book and give it a read before our interview. This book features some of my all time heroes and tells the incredible story of chasing after the world record tarpon in the late 70’s and early 80’s in Homosassa, Florida. Monte traces the history of Saltwater Flyfishing. This is an incredibly interesting story, featuring legends like Steve Huff, Dale Perez, Lefty Kreh, Chico Fernandez, Mark Sosin, Stu Apte, Tom Evans, Flip Pallot, Billy Pate, Ralph Delph, tom McGuane, Jim Harrison, Russell Chattem, Guy De La Valdene, Ted Williams, Andy Mill, and many others who were responsible for early innovation or obsessed with catching the world record tarpon on the fly. This story is full of friendships and rivalries, some even escalating to sinking boats, ruining marriages, and much more. Monte really dives into this in his book, interviewing many of these people to get the exact story. Monte has a background of working for Forbes, where he learned the best way to get accurate information, and he does a ton of digging to make sure that he got this wild story fully accurate. You can pick up a copy of Monte’s book by clicking the link here. This episode is brought to you by these great sponsors: Barracuda Tackle - Makers of the best cast nets on the market BarracudaTackle.com Empire Boat Covers - Protect All The Things You Love - empirecovers.com/TRP Boat Hammock Stands - Comfortable Boating Awaits - boathammockstand.com This episode has been brought to you by Waypoint TV. Waypoint is the ultimate outdoor network featuring streaming of full-length fishing and hunting television shows, short films and instructional content, a social media network, Podcast Network. Waypoint is available on Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, IoS devices, Android Devices and at www.waypointtv.com all for FREE! Join the Waypoint Army by following them on Instagram at the following accounts @waypointtv @waypointfish @waypointsalt @waypointboating @waypointhunt @waypointoutdoorcollective Find over 150 full episodes of Saltwater Experience on Waypoint You can follow Tom Rowland on Instagram @tom_rowland and find all episodes and show notes at Tomrowlandpodcast.com Learn more about Tom's Television shows by visiting their websites: Saltwater Experience Into the Blue Sweetwater Contact Tom through email: Podcast@saltwaterexperience.com

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0:45.0	What really got me about this story was,
0:49.0	you know, not only the obsession in the names,
0:52.0	it was how everything was connected how you
0:54.7	know Bill Smith who was you may have caught the first bonefish in the Florida
0:57.9	flats is connected to Stu Apt who's connected to Billy Pate who's connected to Billy Pate, who's connected to, you know, to Tom
1:05.4	Maguane, who's connected to Nathaniel Linville and David Mangum. I mean it's this it's this continuum which I
1:14.4	didn't know actually going in how connected all these things were and of course to me
1:18.7	the centerpiece anyway was the those incredible years in Homassassa when you could argue that you had the world's best fly
1:26.4	anglers all in the same spot at the same time for roughly five years all after all in the pursuit of the same thing.
1:36.5	This is Mani Burke and welcome to the Tom Roland podcast. Yes. Bonnie, what's going on man? How are you? I'm hanging in there. How about you?
1:59.6	Man, I'm doing great. I gotta say, I got an early copy of your book and I read it and I loved it man.
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