Live from Hawk's Cay Resort with THE QUALIFIED CAPTAIN & GOTCHA SPORT FISHING! | Ep. 949

Tom Rowland Podcast

Waypoint TV

Wilderness, Sports, Health & Fitness

5 • 899 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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In this episode of the Tom Roland Podcast, we're LIVE from Hawks Cay Marina, celebrating the grand opening of the new marina store. Joined by Aaron from The Qualified Captain and Dave from Gotcha Sport Fishing, we delve into everything from childhood fishing stories to serious discussions on boating safety. Aaron shares insights on how The Qualified Captain started and his mission to educate boaters about safety and proper boat handling. Dave talks about his long tenure at Hawks Cay and shares some of his most incredible rescue stories. We also touch on the challenges of professional fishing, the importance of proper boating education, and some upcoming exciting plans for The Qualified Captain. Check out The Qualified Captain at https://thequalifiedcaptain.com/ Check out Gotcha Sports Fishing at https://gotchasportfishing.fish/ All of my other socials can be found here : https://linktr.ee/TomRowlandPodcast The Tom Rowland Podcast is presented by Star brite! Clean and protect with Star brite, a leading manufacturer of appearance, maintenance, and performance chemicals and accessories, serving the marine, RV, automotive, powersports, hardware, and home care industries for over 50 years. Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL, and with its manufacturing plant in Montgomery, AL, the company produces "Made In The USA" products, including its flagship ethanol fuel treatment, Star Tron Enzyme Fuel Treatment. https://bit.ly/48tNW0y 00:00 Introduction and Setting the Scene 00:39 Fishing Adventures and Weather Challenges 01:17 Meet Dave: The Experienced Captain 01:52 Qualified Captain: Crazy Stories and Safety Tips 04:17 The Birth and Growth of Qualified Captain 07:23 Exciting Collaborations and Future Plans 10:47 Diving and Spearfishing Tales 13:29 Exploring Frying Pan Tower 27:54 Challenges and Rewards of Charter Fishing 37:07 Planning the Resort Stay 37:21 Fishing Spots and Regulations 37:41 Exploring the Keys by Boat 39:32 Boat Docking Competitions 42:47 Boat Ramp Etiquette 46:49 Getting Kids into Boating 48:19 Qualified Captain's Future Plans 01:01:23 Fishing in the Keys 01:09:35 Wrapping Up and Future Plans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right.
0:03.0	All right.
0:04.0	All right.
0:07.0	We're live on Tom Rollin podcast.
0:17.0	Live on qualified captain.
0:19.0	What's happening?
0:20.0	We're sitting on the back of the gotcha sport
0:21.9	fisher in hawks k marina we're celebrating the opening of this awesome store what do you guys think about
0:26.9	that it's awesome man um heard a lot about it believe it or not i was actually here when i was like
0:32.2	four or five years old and my mom was showing me some pictures and we're looking back and i saw all this
0:37.4	like man it looks
0:38.1	good here now did a lot of work too so you guys went fishing today huh we went fishing today it was a little
0:42.8	choppy out there but we made it happen what did you see man I think we saw a couple of mackle up
0:48.6	first but um no we wanted to go further but it got kind of nasty yeah well i mean the weather forecast has been
0:56.2	horrible and it's much better than i thought it was going to be so i'm i'm actually quite surprised
1:02.2	that any of us left the dock today yeah i was curious too when you guys said um well chris here
1:07.2	shout out to chris he's a awesome the dockmaster here. He was like, it's like,
1:11.0	yeah, man, you're going to fish tomorrow. I'm like, okay. I did, I did not expect that. So,
1:15.2	and then you hook us up with David here. It has been great. So Dave, how long have you been at
1:19.2	Hawkskay? I've been running boats at a Hawkscape for about 15 years. 15. Yep. I started out on the snapshot, which is another boat here.
1:28.1	Came down and worked on it, and I worked with Day Perry for a while.
1:31.1	Then I bought this boat like six years ago.
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