Tom Rowland Podcast

Michael Lawrence joins the podcast today to talk about Florida’s water issues and how you can help, even if you don’t live in Florida. Michael lives in Kentucky, but loves to fish in Florida and wanted to make a difference. Michael texted me with his ideas so I decided to have him on the podcast to let everyone know. Check out this episode to find out how you can help, because Florida NEEDS YOUR HELP. If Michael can help support the state of Florida from outside the state, so can you!Do you have ideas like Michael’s? Text me at 305-930-7346 and let me know.WIN A FISHING VACATION AT HAWKS CAY! Click Here to Enter: http://tackledirect.tvIf you have questions or suggestions for the show you can text Tom at 1 305-930-7346This episode has been brought to you by Waypoint TV. Waypoint is the ultimate outdoor network featuring streaming of full-length fishing and hunting television shows, short films and instructional content, a social media network, Podcast Network. Waypoint is available on Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, IoS devices, Android Devices and at www.waypointtv.com all for FREE! Join the Waypoint Army by following them on Instagram at the following accounts@waypointtv @waypointfish @waypointsalt @waypointboating @waypointhunt @waypointoutdoorcollectiveFind over 150 full episodes of Saltwater Experience on WaypointYou can follow Tom Rowland on Instagram @tom_rowland and find all episodes and show notes atTomrowlandpodcast.comLearn more about Tom's Television shows by visiting their websites:Saltwater ExperienceInto the BlueSweetwater Contact Tom through email: Podcast@saltwaterexperience.com

For our challenge this week, we are taking cold showers for 5 days straight. According to Wim Hof, exposure to the cold is good for your health. Whether or not that is true, it is definitely a good test of your mental strength. Can you go 5 days in a row without hot water? Text me and let me know how you did. (305) 930-7346WIN A FISHING VACATION AT HAWKS CAY! Click Here to Enter: http://tackledirect.tvIf you have questions or suggestions for the show you can text Tom at 1 305-930-7346This episode has been brought to you by Waypoint TV. Waypoint is the ultimate outdoor network featuring streaming of full-length fishing and hunting television shows, short films and instructional content, a social media network, Podcast Network. Waypoint is available on Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, IoS devices, Android Devices and at www.waypointtv.com all for FREE! Join the Waypoint Army by following them on Instagram at the following accounts@waypointtv @waypointfish @waypointsalt @waypointboating @waypointhunt @waypointoutdoorcollectiveFind over 150 full episodes of Saltwater Experience on WaypointYou can follow Tom Rowland on Instagram @tom_rowland and find all episodes and show notes atTomrowlandpodcast.comLearn more about Tom's Television shows by visiting their websites:Saltwater ExperienceInto the BlueSweetwater Contact Tom through email: Podcast@saltwaterexperience.com

Capt. Chris Whitman of Captains for Clean Water, Aaron Adams of Bonefish Tarpon Trust, and Chris Macaluso of Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership all join the podcast today. We recorded this episode live in the Waypoint TV booth at ICAST 2021 and we had a LOT to talk about. Between the recent changes to lake Okeechobee (LOSOM), and the Tampa Bay water issues, these guys are very busy helping to restore our waters. We get into exactly what these three organizations do, and how they work together to accomplish a mutual goal. We also discuss how YOU can do your part to restore our waters. This is an important podcast. Please share on social media and text it to a friend.WIN A FISHING VACATION AT HAWKS CAY! Click Here to Enter: http://tackledirect.tvIf you have questions or suggestions for the show you can text Tom at 1 305-930-7346This episode has been brought to you by Waypoint TV. Waypoint is the ultimate outdoor network featuring streaming of full-length fishing and hunting television shows, short films and instructional content, a social media network, Podcast Network. Waypoint is available on Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, IoS devices, Android Devices and at www.waypointtv.com all for FREE! Join the Waypoint Army by following them on Instagram at the following accounts@waypointtv @waypointfish @waypointsalt @waypointboating @waypointhunt @waypointoutdoorcollectiveFind over 150 full episodes of Saltwater Experience on WaypointYou can follow Tom Rowland on Instagram @tom_rowland and find all episodes and show notes atTomrowlandpodcast.comLearn more about Tom's Television shows by visiting their websites:Saltwater ExperienceInto the BlueSweetwater Contact Tom through email: Podcast@saltwaterexperience.com

Montana and other states are experiencing record heat and Hoot Owl restrictions are starting to go into effect both voluntary and Mandatory. In this episode, we discuss what that means, the history of where hoot owl came from, and why you should abide by these restrictions as a responsible trout angler. Are you making it out west this summer to fish? Text me and let me know (305) 930-7346WIN A FISHING VACATION AT HAWKS CAY! Click Here to Enter: http://tackledirect.tvIf you have questions or suggestions for the show you can text Tom at 1 305-930-7346This episode has been brought to you by Waypoint TV. Waypoint is the ultimate outdoor network featuring streaming of full-length fishing and hunting television shows, short films and instructional content, a social media network, Podcast Network. Waypoint is available on Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, IoS devices, Android Devices and at www.waypointtv.com all for FREE! Join the Waypoint Army by following them on Instagram at the following accounts@waypointtv @waypointfish @waypointsalt @waypointboating @waypointhunt @waypointoutdoorcollectiveFind over 150 full episodes of Saltwater Experience on WaypointYou can follow Tom Rowland on Instagram @tom_rowland and find all episodes and show notes atTomrowlandpodcast.comLearn more about Tom's Television shows by visiting their websites:Saltwater ExperienceInto the BlueSweetwater Contact Tom through email: Podcast@saltwaterexperience.com

We are continuing our summer challenges with a more difficult one this week. We are going to try and do 100 pull-ups 5 days in a row. If this sounds too difficult, split it up into small increments throughout the day, or do door rows instead. A challenge like this is not too difficult for you to do! Text me at (305) 930-7346 and let me know how these challenges are going.WIN A FISHING VACATION AT HAWKS CAY! Click Here to Enter: http://tackledirect.tvIf you have questions or suggestions for the show you can text Tom at 1 305-930-7346This episode has been brought to you by Waypoint TV. Waypoint is the ultimate outdoor network featuring streaming of full-length fishing and hunting television shows, short films and instructional content, a social media network, Podcast Network. Waypoint is available on Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, IoS devices, Android Devices and at www.waypointtv.com all for FREE! Join the Waypoint Army by following them on Instagram at the following accounts@waypointtv @waypointfish @waypointsalt @waypointboating @waypointhunt @waypointoutdoorcollectiveFind over 150 full episodes of Saltwater Experience on WaypointYou can follow Tom Rowland on Instagram @tom_rowland and find all episodes and show notes atTomrowlandpodcast.comLearn more about Tom's Television shows by visiting their websites:Saltwater ExperienceInto the BlueSweetwater Contact Tom through email: Podcast@saltwaterexperience.com

Marty Stouffer joins the podcast today to tell us about his television success. Marty had a show on PBS called Wild America that became the most viewed series on all of PBS. He focused on animals of all sizes in his show, from large game, all the way down to salamanders and mice. Marty has a ton of stories that he shares in the show today, so be sure to tune in for the full episode!Marty was a suggestion by a listener. If you have suggestions for guests, text me at 305-930-7346WIN A FISHING VACATION AT HAWKS CAY! Click Here to Enter: http://tackledirect.tvIf you have questions or suggestions for the show you can text Tom at 1 305-930-7346This episode has been brought to you by Waypoint TV. Waypoint is the ultimate outdoor network featuring streaming of full-length fishing and hunting television shows, short films and instructional content, a social media network, Podcast Network. Waypoint is available on Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, IoS devices, Android Devices and at www.waypointtv.com all for FREE! Join the Waypoint Army by following them on Instagram at the following accounts@waypointtv @waypointfish @waypointsalt @waypointboating @waypointhunt @waypointoutdoorcollectiveFind over 150 full episodes of Saltwater Experience on WaypointYou can follow Tom Rowland on Instagram @tom_rowland and find all episodes and show notes atTomrowlandpodcast.comLearn more about Tom's Television shows by visiting their websites:Saltwater ExperienceInto the BlueSweetwater Contact Tom through email: Podcast@saltwaterexperience.com

When fishing consistently, especially if you are a guide, it is super important to journal. The advantages of this is that you save yourself from forgetting a spot, and you might be able to plan vacations due to your journal about what the conditions were like when the fishing was on. I am a huge advocate for journalling about where and when you found some fish and being able to track them down over and over again because you wrote it down. When I first started out journalling I was very attentive to details and tried to document everything. The issue is that with guiding, meeting with clients, spending time with family, cleaning the boat and more it was hard to find the time to journal and I quickly began to put it on the back burner. Luckily Simon Becker shared some tips with me about quick and pertinent information I need when journalling. I would use the Florida Sportsman Tide Charts and document my notes on them. Here are the 4 things I would recommend you note: Date Time of Day Location (GPS coordinates or even just “tower flat”) What did you find there (did you find redfish? Were they tailing? Did you find tarpon? Were they eating?) I know there are some people that will say that barometric pressure, wind speed, wind direction and so on are very important. They are certainly extremely important, but when I was journalling all of that information it was taking too much time and energy and I quickly would burn out. So with the 4 things from above you can write it down in a couple of seconds and then later you can go on sites such as Weather Underground and find all of that information about the weather at a later time. The most important thing to do is write it down, do not fool yourself that you can remember it later. Because months and years later you will have so many other things going on you will not remember the specifics about some tarpon you found in a certain area on a certain day. That information is crucial to being able to replicate when you are planning a vacation or taking out some customers and knowing that the conditions are right, if you go to the same location you will likely find the same thing.Because it is no coincidence that a school of tarpon will be tailing in a certain area. If you match the same conditions they will almost certainly be in the same spot every time. WIN A FISHING VACATION AT HAWKS CAY! Click Here to Enter: http://tackledirect.tvIf you have questions or suggestions for the show you can text Tom at 1 305-930-7346This episode has been brought to you by Waypoint TV. Waypoint is the ultimate outdoor network featuring streaming of full-length fishing and hunting television shows, short films and instructional content, a social media network, Podcast Network. Waypoint is available on Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, IoS devices, Android Devices and at www.waypointtv.com all for FREE! Join the Waypoint Army by following them on Instagram at the following accounts@waypointtv @waypointfish @waypointsalt @waypointboating @waypointhunt @waypointoutdoorcollectiveFind over 150 full episodes of Saltwater Experience on WaypointYou can follow Tom Rowland on Instagram @tom_rowland and find all episodes and show notes atTomrowlandpodcast.comLearn more about Tom's Television shows by visiting their websites:Saltwater ExperienceInto the BlueSweetwater Contact Tom through email: Podcast@saltwaterexperience.com

Joe Hippensteel joins the podcast today to discuss the importance of stretching. He also gives us 4 of his stretches from his full program. The challenge this week is to do these stretches 5 days in a row. This one shouldn’t take much time and I think you all will benefit greatly from this. Joe changed my life with his stretching routines, and I challenge you to try these out for yourself. You can see all of Joe’s stretching plans at https://www.ultimatehumanperformance.com/ WIN A FISHING VACATION AT HAWKS CAY! Click Here to Enter: http://tackledirect.tvIf you have questions or suggestions for the show you can text Tom at 1 305-930-7346This episode has been brought to you by Waypoint TV. Waypoint is the ultimate outdoor network featuring streaming of full-length fishing and hunting television shows, short films and instructional content, a social media network, Podcast Network. Waypoint is available on Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, IoS devices, Android Devices and at www.waypointtv.com all for FREE! Join the Waypoint Army by following them on Instagram at the following accounts@waypointtv @waypointfish @waypointsalt @waypointboating @waypointhunt @waypointoutdoorcollectiveFind over 150 full episodes of Saltwater Experience on WaypointYou can follow Tom Rowland on Instagram @tom_rowland and find all episodes and show notes atTomrowlandpodcast.comLearn more about Tom's Television shows by visiting their websites:Saltwater ExperienceInto the BlueSweetwater Contact Tom through email: Podcast@saltwaterexperience.com

This week I had the chance to sit down with Dale Luginbill of FullScale Outdoors podcast to talk about a number of controversial issues going on in Florida right now. The first of these is the debate on harvesting Goliath grouper. We dig into the positives and negatives of a harvest and expression our opinions. We also discuss the red tide that is taking place in Tampa Bay right now. Is it natural, or something that we have caused. We discuss all of this in today’s show. WIN A FISHING VACATION AT HAWKS CAY! Click Here to Enter: http://tackledirect.tvIf you have questions or suggestions for the show you can text Tom at 1 305-930-7346This episode has been brought to you by Waypoint TV. Waypoint is the ultimate outdoor network featuring streaming of full-length fishing and hunting television shows, short films and instructional content, a social media network, Podcast Network. Waypoint is available on Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, IoS devices, Android Devices and at www.waypointtv.com all for FREE! Join the Waypoint Army by following them on Instagram at the following accounts@waypointtv @waypointfish @waypointsalt @waypointboating @waypointhunt @waypointoutdoorcollectiveFind over 150 full episodes of Saltwater Experience on WaypointYou can follow Tom Rowland on Instagram @tom_rowland and find all episodes and show notes atTomrowlandpodcast.comLearn more about Tom's Television shows by visiting their websites:Saltwater ExperienceInto the BlueSweetwater Contact Tom through email: Podcast@saltwaterexperience.com

I got a question here asking what are the top 5 ways to be successful as a fishing guide. I am going to start at number 5 and work my way up, I’m sure if I got together with some other guides we could come up with way more, but here are my top 5: 5. Be professional - I wish when I started out that I understood that being a Fishing Guide was a business and that I treated it as such. I thought it was something I would do for a summer and didn’t think of it as a place of business where I needed to show up in a professional manner and be professional with my customers. There are very high profile people with plenty of money but little time. You are trusted with their most valuable asset and you should present yourself professionally. With this in mind marketing is very important and I wish that (if I could go back) I would have studied more marketing in school. 4. It’s not the biggest or the most - success as a fishing guide is not that you catch the biggest or the most fish. The most important thing you can do is showing your customers a good time. Give them a great experience, this means that they will return to you. That is then how you have a successful business. Have happy customers. 3. Communication - I wish someone had told me how important this was when I was starting out. This is the difference between being good vs. great. Skills with communication start before you even meet the client in person, they start with how you talk about your services online or on social media, all of this influences expectations of the customers. 2. Patience - Fisherman have to be patient, naturally, but you need to have patience in terms of running a successful business or being a successful fishing guide. These things take time to build, it’s a business and having patience with putting in years on the job and time on the water is super important. 1. Hard Work - if someone told me how much work this business would be when I was younger I might not have done it. It is a lot of work and as a guide your work does not start when you get up to go on the water, or when you end the day of fishing. Your work starts hours before the customer arrives, and it ends hours after they leave, you have to clean up and change the rigs on the rods and prepare for the next day. It’s hard work. These are the top 5 things I could think of off the top of my head. Of course, in order to be able to do any of these or all of them, you have to know how to take care of yourself (How To Extend Your Guiding Career). Eat well, watch your hydration, learn exercises that will help to reduce over use injuries, get as much sleep as you can and find time to quiet your mind. WIN A FISHING VACATION AT HAWKS CAY! Click Here to Enter: http://tackledirect.tvIf you have questions or suggestions for the show you can text Tom at 1 305-930-7346This episode has been brought to you by Waypoint TV. Waypoint is the ultimate outdoor network featuring streaming of full-length fishing and hunting television shows, short films and instructional content, a social media network, Podcast Network. Waypoint is available on Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, IoS devices, Android Devices and at www.waypointtv.com all for FREE! Join the Waypoint Army by following them on Instagram at the following accounts@waypointtv @waypointfish @waypointsalt @waypointboating @waypointhunt @waypointoutdoorcollectiveFind over 150 full episodes of Saltwater Experience on WaypointYou can follow Tom Rowland on Instagram @tom_rowland and find all episodes and show notes atTomrowlandpodcast.comLearn more about Tom's Television shows by visiting their websites:Saltwater ExperienceInto the BlueSweetwater Contact Tom through email: Podcast@saltwaterexperience.com