Tom McGuane (Part 2) | Mill House Podcast - Episode 75

[@chuckquint7913]

This was truly great to watch. Thank you

[@roberttusken6876]

Hi Tom. It’s fun listening to this.

[@daveschlom4033]

I really enjoyed listening to him talk about cutting horses. My father Al was a fine horseman and one of the reasons my sister Candice did so well in the world of show jumping was that she learned to teach horses to turn on their hind quarters by working them on cattle! Fred McDougall in LA back in the 60s was my Dad's mentor. I miss my father and his love of horses.

[@the_forgotten_angler]

It's great to hear even "the greats" coming full circle as they get older. It's never been about catching fish.........that's just the bonus. And The Movie, "but looked how it fucked up everything". So true, I was a guide at 7 Lakes Lodge in the mid to late 90's (Andy's Guide there) and watched how fucked up it got in such a short period of time, now I spend my days looking for solitude and new difficult challenges. It's still there, and it's harder to get around at 65, but it is still out there. These interviews are fascinating and treasures.

I'm so glad this continued with Part 2! What a wonderful conversation!

[@mrsafetydog]

What a great and easy conversation. Thank you.

[@peterregan1300]

Andy, another terrific interview. Even my wife, who has zero interest in fishing but is exceptional at watching and listening, said afterwards that, “ that interviewer is fabulous”.

[@brianramsey8395]

I believe the permit angler's name is Jay. I first met him when I was working at Cardenas' shop on Simonton Street in Key West. He came in one time telling me about his Permit fishing and how he worked with wood. This was in '97. He told me he liked wading for his permit, couldn't afford a boat at the time. He told me there's big permit just off one of the run ways off the airport on the old U.S. highway 1 road...I went there one time to try for a Permit. Jay was there, stalking large Permit waist deep. He had one follow all the way to his rod tip and refuse his offering...I watched in disbelief as the Permit tilted and tailed on his offering then refuse it and Jay gasping aloud in disbelief. Big fish, tail was out of water, Jay waist deep. Water looked like mercury in the evening light, pink cumulous towers in the distance, Osprey in brilliant relief against lavender sky; intense but calm.

[@LMarkWeeks]

I’m so happy you asked about Moby Dick. And great response by Tom. Also, Tom’s comments about focusing more on the words like James Joyce when writing his earlier works resonates given how much more “reader friendly” his later works are.

[@randyvining8101]

Great interview..legends

[@sallyreno6296]

Jamie Herlihy wrote Midnight Cowboy, lived on Baker Lane

[@franklopresti6654]

Awesome interviews. That said with all the chit chat by Andy Mill about his 35 years of Tarpon Fishing and all of his involvement in Tarpon tournaments becoming an “icon” in the sport of Tarpon angling with a fly rod, not one mention of the fact he would have never achieved the success he’s had without a considerable bank roll to sustain his efforts. As well, no mention of how many Tarpon died as a result of his pursuit to be the best. Quite a few to exhaustion and even more as a result of Bullsharks attacking Tarpon while hooked at the end of Andy’s fly line….I know I’ve been there to see the carnage. At what cost fame I ask you……

[@marklyons4999]

Hope you went fishing while you were in Montana. I met you some 55 to 60 years ago. My mother and your dad worked for the same company. I grew up in Glenwood and played little league baseball against you in the summers.

[@11bravo18]

Many James. Key west City Attorney and son of Jimmy James, Key West Chief of Police. Busted in Federal investigation "Operation Sunburn". At the time it was the largest drug bust in US history, comprising hundreds of tons of Columbian pot being smuggled by Key West based shrimp boats into the Fl Panhandle then distributed by many defendants from around Fl and elsewhere. Manny did very little time, was disbarred but became a law clerk for a criminal defense firm in Miami and was quoted as stating- " I'm the highest paid law clerk in the world"(source, Miami Herald)

[@markconner3234]

So how many times did u drop acid doing the tarpon flick lol

[@rrseitz1306]

I'll take: wow, for 500 Alex...

[@sallyreno6296]

Manny James

[@Koi-br1st]

Your brother John is laughing in his grave. Alice is not a McGuane , no McGuane blood flows thru her veins . She pure evil having killed John for his money