Erica Lynn: Fishing Social Media Star and Getting Women on the Water
Erica Lynn, a fishing content creator and social media star, joins me to talk about teaching herself kayak fishing, turning content into a career, earning her captain's license, and her mission to get more women anglers on the water, plus the realities of sponsorships, guiding, and managing social media as a creator.
David Orin | Bitten by Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 952
David Orin (@adventorin), the 25-year-old snake specialist with 1.5 million Instagram followers, tells the full story of the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake bite that put him in the ICU for 13 nights. Bitten on the leg by a four-foot diamondback he never saw while searching for scarlet kingsnakes on the Florida coast, Orin went into anaphylactic shock, was life-flighted to Shands Hospital, fought his medical team for adequate antivenom, and tied the hospital's record for CroFab ever administered. One month later, he walks Tom through the strike, the recovery, the drop foot he may live with permanently, and why he is already back in the field wearing snake gaiters.
Gabriela Hoffman: Fishing Policy, Access, and Anglers Unite
Public-policy advocate Gabriela Hoffman joins me for an Anglers Unite conversation on protecting recreational fishing access: how the Modern Fish Act and Magnuson-Stevens Act work, why commercial and recreational fishing should be regulated differently, how administrations shift the landscape, and why anglers need more representation on fisheries-management councils.
Dr. Peter Martone: Sleep Position, Spinal Alignment, and Better Sleep
Dr. Peter Martone, chiropractor and founder of the Way Better Sleep Academy, joins me to explain how the position you sleep in affects your spinal alignment and overall health, why side sleeping can drive shoulder and back pain, how the psoas and neck alignment factor in, and how to use your time in bed to retrain your body and sleep better.
The Qualified Captain & Gotcha Sport Fishing: Live From Hawk's Cay
Recorded live from Hawk's Cay Resort with The Qualified Captain and Gotcha Sport Fishing, this episode covers boating education and on-water safety: why new boat owners should hire a local captain, what to keep in a fishing log book, why you should practice docking on a quiet day, and the search-and-rescue stories behind one of boating's most popular platforms.
Doug Mientkiewicz: Olympic Gold, a World Series Ring, and Fishing Mindset
Doug Mientkiewicz, the only American to hold an Olympic gold medal, a World Series ring, and a Gold Glove, joins me to talk fishing and mindset: how the mental tools that carried him through elite baseball apply to sailfishing in the Florida Keys, why kids should play multiple sports, and the develop-first philosophy he brings to coaching.
Jake Holehouse: Florida Home and Boat Insurance After the Storms
Jake Holehouse of HH Insurance joins me to break down Florida home and boat insurance after the back-to-back Helene and Milton hurricane season: how building codes perform, how flood coverage and the NFIP $250,000 cap work, and the Bahamas and nighttime-navigation gaps that leave so many boat owners underinsured.
Dustin Diefenderfer: Mountain Tough and the State of American Fitness
Dustin Diefenderfer, founder and CEO of Mountain Tough, joins me to talk backcountry fitness for the mountain athlete, why roughly seventy percent of young Americans are ineligible for military service, why clean eating may not be enough, the bar-stool model of physical readiness, and what he would change about American health.
Ryan Crouser: The 3x Olympic Gold Medalist Who Fishes and Bowhunts
Ryan Crouser is a three-time Olympic gold medalist and world-record holder in the shot put who joins me to talk training, the technique he calls the Crouser slide, his regimented 350-grams-of-protein diet, fly fishing and fly tying, public-land bowhunting, and the mindset that lets him win the same event three Olympics in a row.
Jim Root: How to Turn Fishing Into a Full-Time Career
Jim Root is a fishing content creator, writer, and TV host who joins me to explain how he turned fishing into a full-time career — from bass tournaments on the ABA and BFL trails to writing for The Weather Channel, hosting the Outdoor Channel show Bragging Rights, and launching his new travel-and-conservation show Just Landed.
Protecting Fishermen's Rights With the American Sportfishing Association
Larry Phillips and Tom Anderson of the American Sportfishing Association join me from the Sport Fishing Summit to launch the Anglers Unite segment: how recreational anglers can unite to protect fishing access against right whale closures, the 30 by 30 movement, and threats to the federal excise tax, plus striped bass, red snapper, and forward-facing sonar.
Elliot Stark: Travel Fishing, Billfish Conservation, and Chasing Fish Around the World
Elliot Stark is an angler, conservationist, and author who wrote a book on travel fishing covering billfish destinations worldwide. He joins Tom Rowland to talk about his tagging work with The Billfish Foundation, running a mothership operation in Panama, the economics of sport fishing, and how to choose the right fishing destination for you and your family.
Elliot Stark: Travel Fishing for Billfish Around the World
Elliot Stark is a billfish and travel-fishing expert and author who joins me to talk through his book on traveling the world for billfish, his years with The Billfish Foundation, running a 163-foot mothership marlin operation in Panama's Pearl Islands, the socioeconomic studies that reshaped fishing conservation, black versus blue marlin, swordfish, and the offshore-sonar and forward-facing-sonar debates.
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com, on how to avoid getting sick while traveling internationally.
Heartland Bowhunter and The Cast: Producing a Hunting Show vs a Fishing Show
Mike from Heartland Bowhunter, one of the top hunting shows on television, and Trenton, who started a fishing show called The Cast produced by Heartland Bowhunter, join Tom Rowland to compare and contrast the craft of producing a high-quality hunting show versus a high-quality fishing show, two seasons into the new project.
EP 927 - Travis Thompson | Tom Rowland Podcast
Is hunting and fishing a constitutional right? Tom Rowland examines a critical question about state constitutional amendments and the future of outdoor access across America.
Mike Mehlmann: Can the BassForecast App Help You Catch More Bass?
Mike Mehlmann is the founder of BassForecast, billed as the number one bass fishing app in the world. He joins Tom Rowland to explain the data behind the app, how it forecasts the bass bite using weather and conditions, and how both recreational anglers and pros use it to catch more fish.
Taylor Somerville: Breathwork Techniques to Control Stress and Anxiety
Taylor Somerville is the founder of Symmetry, a Memphis-based coaching company that teaches breathwork and nervous-system tools to manage stress and anxiety. A longtime XPT coach, he joins Tom Rowland to break down practical breathing techniques anyone can use, how breath drives the nervous system, and how he brings stress management into corporate settings.
Taylor Somerville: Managing Stress as a New Parent With Breath and the Nervous System
Taylor Somerville is the founder of Symmetry, a Memphis-based coaching company that helps high-achieving people manage stress through breath, cold exposure, and nervous-system training. A longtime XPT coach, he joins Tom Rowland to talk about taking his own medicine as a new parent, why breath is the foundation of everything he teaches, and how to get back control of your time and energy.
Major Thornton: How to Get Famous Doing What You Love
Major Thornton, known on social media as majorgator95, is a tournament redfish angler and fishing content creator. He joins Tom Rowland for a conversation across an age gap about what gets people started in fishing, how a self-described introvert found his voice on camera, using fishing to get through hard times, and where social media is heading for anglers and their kids.
Aaron Benjamin: Abenz Fishing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and Building a Content Business
Aaron Benjamin, known online as Abenz Fishing, is a fishing content creator and entrepreneur with a background in competitive Brazilian jiu-jitsu. He joins Tom Rowland to talk about his path from training under five-time world champion Bernardo Faria to building a content business, the obsessive mindset behind mastery, and how he turned a love of fishing into a brand.
Sting Ray Robb: IndyCar Racing, Backcountry Elk Hunting, and Growing Up in Idaho
Sting Ray Robb is a professional NTT IndyCar Series driver for AJ Foyt Racing and an avid hunter and fisherman from Payette, Idaho. He joins Tom Rowland to explain how a kid from Idaho reached the top tier of American open-wheel racing through the Road to Indy ladder, how he balances backcountry hunting with a racing schedule, and the surprising parallels between motorsport and the outdoors.
Clay Cowart: From Media Professional to YouTube Fishing Fame with Life by the Bow
Clay Cowart is the creator and host of Life by the Bow, a fishing YouTube channel he runs with his wife Stephanie. A University of Miami graduate who started a media company before going full-time on YouTube, he joins Tom Rowland to talk about building a fishing channel, why The Bahamas drives his best content, balancing creative work with a new baby, and the craft of fishing videography.