Conway Bowman | Catching Mako Sharks on Fly! | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 991
Conway Bowman is a fly fishing guide and mako shark specialist who has pioneered techniques for catching one of the ocean's most dangerous predators on fly tackle.
EP 990 | Jimmy Armel | Knot Lucky Veteran Fishing
Knot Lucky Veteran Fishing is a veteran-owned nonprofit founded by Jimmy Armel that takes active duty service members and veterans offshore fishing for free.
Wesley Brough | Surf Casting Monster Roosterfish in Cabo | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 988
Wesley Brough ,who goes by @Cabosurfcaster is a passionate surf fisherman and guide based in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. He is known for targeting monster roosterfish, jack crevalle, and other trophy species from the beach.
Jameson Reeder | Surviving a Shark Attack in the Florida Keys | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 987
Jameson Reeder is a shark attack survivor who was bitten while snorkeling in waist-deep water at a sandbar in the Florida Keys.
Jonathan Gluck | How Fly Fishing Helped Him Beat Cancer for 20+ Years | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 986
Jonathan Gluck is the author of 'An Exercise in Uncertainty,' a memoir chronicling his 20+ year battle with multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer he was diagnosed with at age 38.
Jake Hutcheson | Fishing, Entrepreneurship & Iconic Hair
Jake Hutcheson is a passionate angler and entrepreneur who has built a thriving business through tournament bass fishing, custom rod building, and social media content creation.
Harley Van Hyning | Gnarly Harley | Ep. 983
Gyotaku is a traditional Japanese art form from the 1800s where artists paint directly onto fish and press canvas onto them to capture perfect anatomical impressions.
Lea Anne Powell | 13+ World Records & Fishing From a Kayak to Offshore Giants | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 982
Lea Anne Powell started fishing at age 7-8 at a stock trout pond in New Jersey with her cousin Ashley.
Captain Tony Young | Running 100 Miles and Managing a Charter Business | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 981
Captain Tony Young is a charter fishing captain and ultramarathon runner who has found a way to balance running 100-mile races with managing a successful fishing guide business in the Florida Keys.
Enrique Zapata — How He Completed 7,100 Pull-Ups
Enrique Zapata is a Guinness World Record holder who completed 7,100 pull-ups in 12 hours.
EP 974: Steve Kantner - The Land Captain
Steve Kantner, known as "The Land Captain," is a legendary fishing guide and outdoor writer from South Florida who built a 30-year guiding career without ever owning a boat—working entirely from shore, piers, and a canoe.
EP 974: Rich Hernandez - Record-Breaking Conquest
Rich Hernandez is an MIT graduate, aerospace engineer, Yale MBA holder, and extreme fitness content creator who transformed his life through David Goggins' philosophy of doing hard things daily.
Chris Wittman | How Two Fishing Guides Started a Movement | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 971
Chris Wittman is the co-founder of Captains for Clean Water, a nonprofit organization fighting for clean water and Everglades restoration in Florida. Before dedicating his life to this mission, Chris was a full-time fishing guide in Southwest Florida, living his dream job on a 17-foot skiff. In this conversation, Chris reveals how he and Captain Daniel Andrews walked away from their careers as fishing guides to spearhead what became the largest ecosystem restoration project in the history of the world. You'll hear about the moment they realized adaptation wasn't enough anymore, the first time a policymaker told them their voices didn't matter, and why a shallow water reservoir became a deepwater reservoir instead. This is the story of how two fishing guides created a movement that changed Florida's political landscape.
Jonathan Neyman: Year-Round Trout on the South Holston and Watauga in East Tennessee
Jonathan Neyman, owner of The Fly Box in far East Tennessee, joins Tom Rowland to talk trout on the South Holston and Watauga Rivers. Jonathan explains why these tailwaters are so cold and fishable year-round, how the dam that draws water from 250 feet deep keeps the river in the 50s, and how a kid who grew up chasing salmon and steelhead on Northern California's Eel River ended up building a fly shop and community hub in Bristol, Tennessee.
Golden Boat Lifts | Hurricane-Resistant Systems for Saltwater & Marine | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 980
Bill Golden from Golden Boat Lifts joins Tom Rowland to discuss how his Ocala, Florida-based company manufactures hurricane-resistant boat lifts specifically engineered for saltwater and marina environments.
Chris Fischer - How OCEARCH Tracks Great White Sharks
Chris Fischer, founder of OCEARCH, joins me to explain how his team catches, tags, and releases great white sharks, the nursery discoveries that rewrote the science, and how OCEARCH's tracking data is changing ocean conservation policy.
Rosie K. Moore: Sharks, Pythons, and Wild Florida Fieldwork
Rosie K. Moore is a scientist, author, and social-media personality who studies some of the world's most dangerous animals, including sharks, venomous snakes, invasive pythons, and American crocodiles. She joins me to talk about her Everglades fieldwork, why she chose crocodilians over sharks, and how she uses social media to change how people see misunderstood predators.
Mark Smith | Wildlife Photography Ethics & the Exposure Pyramid | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 964
Mark Smith is a renowned wildlife photographer who went professional in 2017 after years as a ghost writer and musician. Before picking up a camera full-time, Smith wrote bestselling books on treasure hunting that funded his transition into photography—a journey that took him from Florida to the San Juan Mountains of Colorado in an RV with his family. In this conversation, Mark reveals the exact moment high in the Colorado mountains when the technical aspects of photography suddenly clicked for him, shares why he believes the popular "exposure triangle" teaching method is fundamentally flawed, and explains his controversial approach to documenting nature without interference—even when a ghost crab runs off with a baby sea turtle. He also opens up about photographing Dalmatian pelicans in Greece, community cats in Thailand, and why bald eagles feeding in Canadian ocean rapids remain the most challenging subject he's ever shot.
Chris Fischer | How OCEARCH Changed White Shark Research Forever | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 968
Chris Fischer is the founder of OCEARCH, a nonprofit organization that conducts groundbreaking research on great white sharks and other apex predators through an innovative open-source research platform.
Dr Tracy Fanara | Red Tide, Saharan Dust & Florida Water Quality Science | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 962
Florida red tide is caused by Karenia brevis, a native unicellular phytoplankton that releases toxins harmful to aquatic life and humans.
Captain Dave Hansen | Saltwater Fishing From West Coast Halibut to Cabo Marlin | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 960
Cabo San Lucas sits at the tip of the Baja Peninsula where the Pacific Ocean meets the Sea of Cortez, creating a convergence of two bodies of water that brings exceptional nutrient flow and fish diversity.
Michael Fowlkes | Founding Fathers & Secret Kite Shaped Sport Fishing | Ep. 958
Michael Fowlkes reveals how America's Founding Fathers used a fishing club to write the Constitution, plus the history behind kite fishing and modern sport fishing innovations.
Lawrence Guy: Super Bowl Champion on Fishing, Mindset, and Lessons From the Patriots
Lawrence Guy, NFL defensive lineman and Super Bowl champion with the New England Patriots, joins me to talk fishing and mindset: teaching his kids patience and process on the water, how the focus required at the highest level of football translates to fishing, and the lessons he carries from playing with Tom Brady and under Bill Belichick.