The wisdom gained year after year seems to have something to do with it. I think marrying a younger woman helps! Who are your heroes? If you could bring anybody in the world with you to do what you love dead or alive , who would it be?
I expect, my dad Who never got to see me shine. What sound or noise do you love? Mims, Florida Current residence.
Flip Pallot. Done that. His folks were born there as well and were early pioneers of Dade County. It was a wonderful place for a young man to grow up to whatever extent Flip has grown up. It was the perfect crucible in which to form a total outdoorsman…and form that man it did!
These four inseperables could be found along the shores of the Bay and down through the Keys or stalking the banks of the Tamiami Trail Canal most days after work. All four finished school during the evenings at the University of Miami a whole other story!!!! From Flip was in the jungles of Panama as a linguist with the U.
Now Pallot shifts a tall leather snake boot and shrugs. Pallot shrugs. Too many crows. Not much to do about that. You want a carrot? What is striking about this moment is that the man sprawled beside me, in blue jeans and a straw hat spray-painted green he does not believe in traditional camouflage , could be anywhere else in the world. In the Bahamas chasing bonefish, in New Zealand chasing trout, in Costa Rica sticking sailfish with flies the size of cigars.
Pallot is arguably the most famous angler in the history of saltwater fly fishing. Along the way, Pallot gained a reputation as a sage and a sort of grizzly-bearded wisdom keeper for the increasingly technological pursuit of fly fishing, creating an ethic and an aesthetic of the saltwater lifestyle that inform the sport deeply even today. And he still fishes and leads trips around the world, to places he has fished many times.
Pallot, who prefers hunting with a longbow, takes at least one practice shot every morning. Places he could be today, except for this: Flip Pallot loves to hunt turkeys even more than he loves to fish. He hunts deer, hogs, and turkeys nearly year-round, and rarely buys meat from the grocer. He grew up hunting, and for years before his television career, he guided hunters for game as varied as hogs and gators. A passionate traditional archer, he got his first longbow when he was a junior in high school.
He still sends out turkey feathers from his kills to arrowsmiths who fletch his custom arrows with the vanes. Pallot unfolds his six-foot-one-inch frame and steps out to pull the turkey decoy as I gather our packs and water bottles for the hike out. He strides through the dappled sunlight with each hand slightly cupped, his torso bent slightly forward, unrushed but purposeful.
At the age of seventy-five, he walks like a man who still has places to go. M y-am-ah. Pallot pronounces the word as he heard it as a child.
The dog would chase a turkey, and the boys would chase the dog until the turkey flew into a tree. Dade County back then was a place small enough for incredible happenstance, and for united fates that would ultimately shape the burgeoning sport of saltwater fly fishing.
Norman Duncan was another boyhood pal. As kids, this foursome coursed along the Everglades and the Keys. They cruised the Tamiami Trail, a. They paddled air mattresses into Biscayne Bay to cast for tarpon and pompano.
After graduating, the foursome split. Chico Fernandez went to work in accounting for an infant hamburger chain: Burger King. Pallot joined the U. Army, and spent the years from to as a linguist in the jungles of Panama. For a dozen years he guided hunters and anglers full-time, from Florida to Montana.
But celebrity-driven story lines were their standard fare, and Pallot wanted to plow fresh ground. My thinking was, everybody has a fishing buddy, someone they love to spend time with and share adventures with. I wanted to highlight those relationships and feature real-deal people.
That was very important to me. His wife, Diane, was an airline attendant and serious fly angler herself, and on one of her flights she met a wealthy businessman whose family owned a tiny cay in the northern Bahamas.
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