Capt. Scott Moore: Hurricane Recovery and Community on Anna Maria
Capt. Scott Moore is a longtime Anna Maria, Florida fishing guide who lived through roughly four feet of water over Anna Maria Island during the hurricane, with several feet flooding his own home. He joins me to talk about the recovery, the community response that carried the island, and the decades he has spent guiding and fighting for Florida's Gulf Coast.
EP 994 | Carey Chen | Legendary Marine Artist
Carey Chen is a legendary marine artist known worldwide for his vivid, lifelike paintings of gamefish and ocean life.
EP 993 | Shane Reynolds | Color Earth
Shane Reynolds is the founder of Color Earth and an Emmy-nominated cinematographer who has worked in 65 countries for Discovery Channel, Nat Geo Wild, and Travel Channel.
Jordan Thomas - How a Double Amputee Turned Tragedy Into Purpose
Jordan Thomas lost both legs at 16 in a diving accident, then decided from his hospital bed to become a force for good. He joins me to share how the Jordan Thomas Foundation has given more than 200 children prosthetics from age 18 months to 18 years, and why it became his life's purpose.
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.
Ryan Johnston | RJ's Fly Trips | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 977
Ryan Johnston is a fly fishing guide with 22 years of experience and the founder and executive director of Cast Hope, guiding across Northern California, Idaho's South Fork of the Snake, and now Montana near Kalispell and Glacier National Park. In this episode, Ryan reveals what two decades of professional guiding has taught him about client management, the evolution of fly fishing gear and techniques, and how he built a nonprofit that uses fishing to serve others. You'll hear about the unexpected challenges of running a guide business, the specific ways fly fishing has changed over two decades, and the moment that inspired Cast Hope. If you've ever wondered what it really takes to make it as a professional guide or how to turn your passion into purpose, this conversation is packed with hard-won insights.
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 Big Sugar Controls Florida's Water | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 972
Chris Wittman is the co-founder of Captains For Clean Water, a nonprofit organization advocating for clean water and Everglades restoration in Florida. In this conversation with Tom Rowland, Chris explains the current state of Everglades restoration, the political challenges that threaten progress, and how the Sugar Industry uses misinformation campaigns to divide fishing communities. He reveals how Big Sugar spent over a million dollars in political contributions in just one quarter, why bass fishermen and saltwater anglers are being pitted against each other, and what could change everything if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tackles the farm bill subsidy system. This is part two of an essential conversation about how anglers can unite to protect Florida's waters and what the future holds under a new political landscape.
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.