9/2/2023 0 Comments Andy mill.![]() ![]() We beat Rob Fordyce and Carlos Duncan at the buzzer. We caught him too! Four of the five fish we caught were over 70 pounds. We ran there and found one laid up on the edge. He said we’ve lost the tide but there still might be a couple in Log Jam. I told Timmy we needed one more to have a chance. Ran into a basin and caught a fatty, the 115. That day we had five bites and caught all five, the largest was a 115-pound fish. I told him if he finds the fish I’d catch them and we were going to win this thing. (In this tournament you received 10 points per pound for a fish over 70 pounds). The leaders were only 1,400 points ahead of us. When I got back to the boat I told Hoover that all week we were struggling, but today we had great weather. I moved my truck as far away from where it was parked as I could. The horn had now blown and all the boats were now racing to their spots. Once there I jumped out of the boat and ran to my truck. I dug my tackle bag out of the front hatch as he motored over to the dock. He was irritated and didn’t want to waste the time. I told Timmy Hoover, my guide, to take me to the dock. Yes, we were in last place, the week contained terrible weather and we had horrible luck with all our big fish falling off the hook. He then said I’m normally in the top three going into the last day and this year we were in last place. We were idling, waiting for the horn when the late Kenny Collette yelled over to me that I had to go move my truck…I asked why? He said my parking spot had bad Mojo on it! Really, I responded, and he said, no question. Every day we would rotate so everyone had a chance to leave first. There were five fleets of five boats leaving at two-minute intervals. We were on the starting grid waiting for the horn to blow signaling when we could push the throttle down and race an hour and a half to where we usually fish. It was the last day of the five-day event. Photo from web….Please reach out for creditĪndy: Only once, and it turned out to be the greatest win of my life! It was during one of the Gold Cups, the most important tarpon tournament in the world. Tim: Great, so this is one of my questions, would you consider yourself superstitious? Many mornings it’s on before my underwear… A large part of my best life I was wearing it. It’s a 4x beaver, so it’s pretty waterproof. This hat, I bought a long, long time ago and it’s become a big part of me. I see you in this hat all the time.Īndy: Thanks, Tim. ![]() Let’s get going as I have a ton of questions for you. Tim: Hey, guy! Good to see you again and thanks so much for doing this for me and my club. If you haven’t started to listen to the MILL HOUSE podcast you are missing some of the greatest fishermen - they’re mostly fly anglers but not always - tell the most amazing stories. I don’t let that many people call me Timmy but the way Andy does it is so endearing, only my late Grandpa called me that and he passed from Corona last year, and Andy says it the exact way Grandpa did. If you watch or listen to Andy he will always use the fun nicknames of people. ![]() I know for a fact he has accomplished his goal of being a nice man. As you could imagine we interrupted ourselves with anecdotes and many jokes along the way. This is a shortened version of everything we talked about. I would have published the video, but Andy and I are known to use inappropriate language, drink a few adult beverages, and just plain banter with each other. Andy can be considered the top tournament fly angler of all time with 14 wins in the majors (12 tarpon, 1 bonfish, and 1 permit) including five Gold Cups and could not be a nicer dude. I never thought we would go over two hours, but he is by far the most open book fly fisherman I have ever talked to. Andy agreed to let me shoot as many questions as I could at him. Ever since he presented to our club, we have kept in contact and share pleasantries with each other. ![]()
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