Reading the Water Podcast
Reading the Water Podcast
Ep. 6: You're Only One Cast Away From Greatness (w/ Monte Burke)
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Ep. 6: You're Only One Cast Away From Greatness (w/ Monte Burke)

Writer and contributing editor Monte Burke

In this episode, we talk with Monte Burke about his path to becoming a writer, his past, present, and future projects, the outlook for tarpon, and the role of obsession in fishing and sports. (Presented by Hatch Magazine.)

(0:00:00) Introduction

(0:02:20) Why so much writing about fishing?

(0:05:50) Bad Hemingway

(0:10:00) Monte's path to writing

(0:18:00) Lords of the Fly

(0:26:30) The outlook for tarpon

(0:43:20) Nick Saban

(0:52:40) On writing and publishing

(0:56:10) Mt. Rushmore for fishing writing

(1:01:40) New projects

(1:05:40) George H. W. Bush

Learn more about Monte Burke

https://monteburke.com/

Lords of the Fly

Saban

Discussion about this podcast

Reading the Water Podcast
Reading the Water Podcast
Interviews and conversations with writers, artists, conservationists, and adventurers in fly fishing. Presented by Hatch Magazine. (https://hatchmag.com)