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Tom Rowland

Captain Tom Rowland, professional fishing guide and TV host of Saltwater Experience, hosts the Tom Rowland Podcast on fishing, hunting, fitness, and the outdoors.

Oct 1, 2026

13:20
How did all that come together?
13:21
Well, it kind of went from guiding to these professional redfish tournaments.
13:26
And that...
13:28
You know, some advice that people have given me before, be careful what you get good at, you know, because you might find that that's what you have to do now.
13:37
And we weren't the best at the tournaments, but we were good enough that we were in the top few percent of the teams out there.
13:44
We had sponsorship.
13:46
And we started having to travel around to all these tournaments.

50 MINS LATER

63:34
But something that from time to time when you close your eyes, you think – Man, that was a day.
15:42
When did you get into I know you've been fit your whole life, but when did you really dive into this type of fitness?
15:48
Well, I haven't been fit my entire life.
15:51
I was a wrestler growing up and then there were several years where I got out of shape.
15:55
And that was really the the motivation to have a lifelong career.
16:01
you know, fitness routine was when, when we decided we were going to have kids, I decided I'm going to be a leader in my family.
16:08
I'm going to, my kids will never know me without exercising every day.
16:13
And so when my wife got pregnant, that's when, that's when I made a real change in, in everything.

16 MINS LATER

31:59
Okay.
4:55
I went out there one summer and just slept on a floor in Mammoth.
4:58
Yeah.
4:59
I didn't know what to expect out there, but it was just going to be a summer job.
5:03
But what I found was something that really changed my life almost instantaneously.
5:07
I saw that there was just more to the world than Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
5:12
And I wanted I wanted some of it, you know, and you were just basically cut loose in Yellowstone National Park to hike and backpack and camp and do whatever you wanted to.
5:26
They gave us three days off in a row.

1 HR 17 MINS LATER

82:54
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