Stu apte biography

Stu Apte, a legendary Keys guide was recently inducted into the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame at the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum in Livingston Manor, New York, on October 6.

James Shepherd The Fishing Wire

Story as told by Stu to Evinrude’s E-NATION (Stu has also recently partnered with Evinrude to power his Signature Series of Beavertail Skiffs with 90-horsepower E-TEC engines):

It was my birthday, May 11, 1982, when my good friend Capt.

Apte: I was a fighter pilot.

In early October, , we met an old friend, Stu Apte, at his house in Tavernier, Florida.

Stu was a fighter pilot in the Navy during the Korean conflict.

Of Wind and Tides is a delightful autobiography of one of the world's true fishing legends.

Stu Apte was born in Miami on Mother's Day in He pronounces the name of his hometown as “My-am-uh,” in the same way that Flip Pallot.

Ralph Delph of Key West fame and I decided to celebrate my birthday by fly fishing for big tarpon at Homosassa, Florida. Just to sweeten the pot, a new TV film producer had heard about the five days we were going to spend searching for that 200-pound tarpon.

He asked if he could follow us in a second boat staying out of our way but shooting the happenings.

The plan involved having the producer and his cameramen meet Ralph and me for dinner on May 10 at the Riverside Villas on