Many people have become aware of the water issues in South Florida. If you would like to get up to speed before listening to Benny, I suggest that you check out podcast #0012 with Capt. Daniel Andrews from the organization Captains for Clean Water and the update that I did with Daniel #0018 as well as my How2Tuesday #5 episode on How to Make A Difference In the Fight For The Everglades. These episodes can really help you to fully understand this issue. If you don't have time for that, simply watch Captains for Clean Water video below. Within 5 minutes, you will have a pretty good understanding of the problems that the Everglades is facing today.
Read MoreDaniel explains that we do not have to recreate the wheel to fix this problem. The solution is already out there...and passed. The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan was passed in 2000 and virtually nothing has been done since.
Read MoreRed Tide and algae blooms are having devastating effects on the marine ecosystem of SW Florida. Capt Daniel Andrews of Captains for Clean Water joins us for an update and instructions for how you can help. This is the most important episode we have ever published. Please take action, share this episode and encourage others to take action as well.
Read MoreJason Stemple is a professional photographer who works with me on Saltwater Experience, Into The Blue and Sweetwater shoots. Jason also does work for Buff, Yeti, Hawks Cay and many other companies in the fishing industry. His work is well received because he is able to capture the feeling of the moment and portraying the situation accurately.
Read MoreOn today's How2Tueday show, I ask Hunt about his opinion on how someone would go about learning how to and then getting into whitewater kayaking. Hunt breaks it down for us in less than 10 minutes and gives excellent advice for anyone who is interested in learning to kayak.
Read MoreA wreck caused her to re-evaluate her life and dive head first into making her living in the business of Flyfishing. Additionally, becoming a parent has also caused her to live her life slightly differently than before.
Read MoreDavis Bennett is a young filmmaker who has burst out onto the scene. Having only fished and shot video for only a few years, Davis’s work never shows his relative inexperience. Through my son, Hayden, he began following Davis on Instagram and has been interested in his work ever since.
Read MoreCoach Reeve became the first Director of Strength and Conditioning at Ohio University in 1995 and worked worked with over 650 athletes. In 2001, he became Director of Strength and Conditioning at Wake Forest University and remained there until this year when he returned to The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Read MoreJoe Simonds started the online fishing business Salt Strong with his brother Luke after evaluating his life and realizing that he was just not happy. The two brothers got together and asked themselves really hard questions about what they wanted to do and why. Fishing continued to emerge as the common theme that made both of them happy.
Read MoreBrian Latimer is a FLW Pro Bass Fisherman who makes his living through fishing tournaments and sponsorship. With an associate degree in horticulture, Brian owned a successful landscaping business and later, after some soul-searching, decided to pursue professional fishing full-time.
Read MoreMy oldest son, Turner, is almost 21. In his few short years since graduating high school, he has worked in Yellowstone National Park and as a wrangler at a guest ranch in Whitefish, MT. Recently, he graduated from an intensive one month course by National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) to earn his EMT and Wilderness EMT.
Read MoreWhen 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.
Read MoreRobert Arrington has a Youtube personality that goes by DeerMeatForDinner. He currently has over 850,000 subscribers and records weekly videos of him catching/killing, cleaning, and then cooking his kill.
Read MoreI had an experience early on in my career as a guide that really opened my eyes to how to communicated and how I made sure the customer was happy. For a guide a happy customer is a returning customer, and a returning customer makes for a successful guide. So being able to understand what you want and what you want from your guide is very important.
Read MoreRoland Martin and I sit down to discuss Roland’s successful fishing career and where he came from.
Roland talks about his history of losing his parents at a young age and how he recuperated from that tragedy.
Read MoreHoward Films is responsible for creating some of the most iconic fishing films in existence. Beginning with In Search of A Rising Tide with Andy Smith in the Bahamas, Howard films caught the eye of fishing fans and led him to create Chasing Silver, Location X, Andy's Return, Bass The Movie and most recently, Running the Coast.
Read MoreJason Stemple grew up in a small farming town in Massachusetts, and his early fishing experiences were fly-fishing with his dad. He earned an associate degree in graphic design and photography at a local community college, and then headed out to Western State College of Colorado to earn a business degree. While in Colorado, Jason had time to go skiing, and continue to dabble in photography, and got back into fly-fishing around the age of 24.
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