His book A Passion for Tarpon ignited the hearts and minds of tarpon anglers worldwide and set the stage for. Andy Mill married tennis player Chris Evert on July 30, 1988, in Boca Raton, Florida, after meeting him at a New Year’s Eve party at the Hotel Jerome in Aspen 19 months before. At BookExpo America in New York in May 2011, Mills tarpon book received. He was divorced from his first wife, Robin, a former miss California. You may order your copy today at or by telephoning 42. Ski Team from 1969 to 1981, competing in two World Championships and two Olympics. A Passion for Tarpon by Andy Mill, which Wild River Press published one year ago. NOTE: Wild River Press reports that they are nearing selling out of the first edition of Andy Mill’s award-winning book. Beginning his outdoor career as a downhill ski racer, Mill was a member of the U.S. Filled with larger-than-life characters and vivid prose, Lords of the Fly is not only a must-listen for anglers of all stripes, but also for those interested in the desperate yearning of the human condition. Andy Mill has led a sporting life with few contemporaries. Alongside the story of the world-record pursuit, Burke also chronicles the heartbreaking destruction of the fishery brought on by greed, environmental degradation and the shenanigans of a notorious Miami gangster-and how all of it has shaped contemporary tarpon fishing. Lords of the Fly ties together the lives of the biggest names in angling-Ted Williams, Stu Apte, Lefty Kreh, Flip Pallot, Thomas McGuane, Billy Pate, Tom Evans, and Steve Huff-as well as present-day stars like Andy Mill, David Mangum, and Nathaniel Linville. In Lords of the Fly, Monte Burke, an obsessed tarpon fly angler himself, delves into this seminal moment and the growing popularity of the amazing tarpon, a fifty-million-year-old species that can live to eighty years old and can grow to three hundred pounds. What a year unfolding for Wild River Press. The best fly anglers in the world all gathered together to chase the same Holy Grail-the world record for the most glamorous and coveted fly rod species, the tarpon. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, something unique happened in the quiet little town on the west coast of Florida known as Homosassa.
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