Field notes from serious outdoor lives.
Tom Rowland Podcast keeps its feet on boats, beaches, mountains, and the water. The conversations move from saltwater tactics and shark behavior to sheep hunts, endurance, marine products, tournament stories, and the mindset behind people who spend serious time outside.
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Tom Rowland Podcast is a long-running outdoors interview show rooted in saltwater fishing, but it rarely stays in one lane for long. Its natural setting is the practical conversation: rods, reels, boats, sharks, guides, tournaments, travel, conservation, and the physical demands of staying active outside. The show has a lived-in feel. It is comfortable taking time. Episodes often open with extended sponsor and event material, then settle into conversations where a guest story becomes the way into a larger point. Bouncer Smith brings the texture of Miami guiding, sailfish stories, lost gear, modern reels, and the reality of saltwater wear. Nick Honachefsky’s appearance reaches into Saltwater Underground, shark encounters, striped bass, great white tagging, and how much more visible marine movement becomes once data and apps enter the picture. Kyle Gemas takes the show into mountain country, with goat hunts, Dall sheep, tarpon fishing, alders, waiting out a final day, and the kind of mental patience that outdoor success often requires. Monte Burke’s conversation ties elite football coaches to high-level anglers, looking at excellence, mindset, culture, and the small habits that compound over time. Other recent material touches marine surface technology, charter business, ultra-distance running, New Brunswick fishing and hunting, boat care, insurance gaps, and conservation support. The show is friendly without being slick. It assumes the audience already cares about the details. That means the best moments are often specific: a buoy drifting downwind, a shark clipping a bass, a fly rod left behind on a goat hunt, or a guide comparing old saltwater reels with newer ones. It suits listeners who want outdoor talk with names, places, species, and practical consequences attached. It can also wander. For the right audience, that looseness feels less like wasted time and more like the pace of a real conversation.
Made for: For anglers, hunters, guides, charter operators, endurance-minded outdoors people, and fishing-media followers who enjoy detailed conversations more than quick tips. It especially suits listeners who like saltwater stories with practical gear, travel, and conservation context.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its mix of high-specificity field stories and broad outdoor curiosity. It can move from shark tagging to football-coach mindset to marine products without losing the grounded, practical texture of people who spend real time outside.
Tom Rowland of Saltwater Experience Television finds interesting stories in Fishing, Hunting, Fitness and the Outdoors and brings them to you in ultra high-quality audio. Unhurried conversations with icons, up and comers and people doing amazing things outside. Text "PODCAST" to (305) 930-7346 to contact Tom directly with questions or show suggestions.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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Shark talk, surf bass, and tagged whites, with just enough dockside detail to feel real.
Nick Honachefsky keeps the focus on what anglers are already seeing: bass getting clipped in half in the surf, shark sightings changing the feel of the water, and the difference between brown sharks and great whites along a rockier stretch of coast.
A mountain hunt story that earns its pauses and finishes with real outdoor detail.
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Regional fishing talk, lake by lake.
Inside the margins of tournament bass fishing.
Plainspoken fly fishing from gear to culture.
SoCal fishing talk with shop-floor grit.
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Monty brings a conversation about excellence into the fishing world.
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