Tom Rowland Podcast

Parker Rabow started the Florida Fantasy Fishing Camp as a project for his Entrepreneurship Major.  The numbers worked and he knew of no other fishing camps for kids so he decided to go for it.  The first year he had 2 sessions of 14 kids.  This summer, 450 kids will go through his program with another 250 on a waiting list.

I got a message where the person said they thought they were putting a lot of pressure on tarpon and the guide said: "you have to start putting pressure on the tarpon, you are putting no pressure on it." So I think I'll quickly go over this, it could for sure be a full-length episode but here are some quick points on how to put pressure on tarpon.

Dr. Izumi Tabata proved that 20 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest repeated 8 times was the way that most athletes can produce the highest output of energy.  Today we discuss how to bring the Tabata Protocol into your training. Read more HERE.

Kyle Gemas recently traveled to the Seychelles by way of Dubai.  As a once in a lifetime destination for most anglers, The Seychelles holds a particular allure.  Kyle talks about the trip as well as his extensive tournament experience in the Florida Keys and how it helped him develop as an angler. Read more HERE.

A listener asked if I would do this show on how to properly handle fish intended for release.  I was a little hesitant at the time because each fish that we fish for requires a slightly different technique.  I wasn’t sure if I could effectively communicate, through audio only, the proper way to handle fish.  I gave it a whirl anyway and hope it is helpful, if you want to know more please email me and I would be happy to provide any details that were missed in the podcast. Read the full article HERE.

Maintain one more workout station than you have people (2 partners, then keep 3 workout stations). One partner rests while the other does a certain amount of pull-ups or some other exercise. As soon as they finish the other partner will start on push-ups. Rotate through the exercises, resting while your partner is doing their workout and see how many rotations you can do in a certain amount of time. Read the full workout HERE.

Josh is a wounded warrior with 4 traumatic brain injuries, he retired in 2008, but continued to support the military as a contractor state-side and abroad. While leading a training exercise in 2013 he had his last traumatic brain injury, complete with a fractured nose, rib, and cervical spine compression. With the doctor’s prescribed medications and self-medicating with alcohol, Josh reached the limits of his functionality. Josh went from that to bouncing back. Read about his story HERE.

The 3 boats I fish from obviously have different anchoring requirements, different types of bottom, different lengths of line, different amounts of chain and even different types of anchors… The one thing that holds true with any of these is that when I put my anchor down I want it to hold, I don’t want it to slip. When I put my anchor down I also want to be able to get off of the anchor and go chase down a fish. Read about the anchor Recipe HERE.

So now we have finally come to a hotel with a gym that has everything that you need. It has a treadmill, dumbbells, a pull-up bar, a pool and you brought your jump rope. With all of that, you can make up your own workouts but you can also do workouts like The Murph, Three-Rounds-For-Time, 21:15:9 or a combination of pool and running workouts. Read about them HERE.

Dr. Lori Schweikert is a researcher with degrees in Marine Biology from Florida who not only researches fish but is an avid fisherman. Lori gets a lot of inspiration from her experiences on the water and brings that stuff back to the lab. She has been able to apply a lot of her research to her fishing. I found out conversation super interesting about the Hogfish and mostly about the Tarpon. I had so many questions about what the fish could see and how that would help my fishing.