#0065 - Lawrence Gunther - North America's Only Blind Professional Angler And Conservationist

Tom Rowland Podcast

Waypoint TV

Sports, Wilderness, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

At only 8 years old Lawrence was register “blind” when it was found that his central vision had failed, and by his 20’s Lawrence lost even more of his sight. At this point he began to see through his other senses and adopted a guide dog and took on reading in braille. Now, in his 40’s, after earning a Masters in Environmental Studies and nearly losing is ability to perceive light, his love for the outdoors has continually increased. Read the full article HERE.

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0:00.0	If you hunt enough, you learn the truth.
0:02.3	What you seek speaks a language and knows it well.
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1:00.0	If we want fishing to be around and we want this resource to be around, we need to all start to paint those pictures in our mind very clearly and start to, you know, share the love and knowledge of those worlds with other people so that they too
1:14.7	will connect with that and I think that's my resandatra that's my goal that's why I
1:20.4	started the charity Blue Fish Canada.
1:22.8	That's most of my filming work now, my documentary.
1:27.3	My other filming is, and my speaking is really
1:31.0	to just encourage and to inspire people to become stewards of their of
1:38.0	their fishing holes of their waters. I'm Lawrence Gunther and this is the Tom Row's podcast. I have a really fantastic guest today. I'm really happy to bring you this story. I came across this gentleman by listening to another podcast. I think it was called Fish Nords and listened to one of their episodes and they had this gentleman
2:16.2	on and I was fascinated by a story.
2:18.2	I knew I had to get him on our podcast.
2:20.5	And this guy has done a tremendous amount of things in Canada for the most part a lot of
2:26.5	conservation work a lot of work with fishing and fishing rights and getting people to access, particularly young people to access fishing.
2:37.9	He's a competitive angler, he's a well-sponsored angler.
2:40.9	He has done lots of other things in other interests, including competing in
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