It's the off-season for tournament coverage, so it's time to rev up the Pros41Source Five Questions engine and see who's brave enough to step up and answer the in-depth, soul-searching, poignant... Ah heck, it's just five questions for a person in the fishing biz.
Let's examine the phenomenal rise of a young professional walleye angler with multiple victories and more than $300,000 in winnings over the past few seasons; introducing young gun 25-year old Korey Sprengel. He lives in the south-central Wisconsin city of Beaver Dam, and g
Anglers Credit Underwater Cameras for both NAIFC Championship and Team of the Year Titles
Petal, Mississippi's Cliff Pace is the 2013 Bassmaster Classic Champion. He achieved this lofty goal handily despite experiencing what he described as his 'hardest day of fishing in his life'. While Brandon Palaniuk gave chase and came close bringing in a 5-fish limit weighing 15-pounds and 4-ounces, Pace's four fish weighing 11-pounds 8-ounces were enough to secure a 3-day total of 54-pounds 12-ounces besting Palaniuk by 3-pounds 4-ounces.
Low profile is not what any BassFIRST fan would ever think of when describing Mike Iaconelli, but in reality the bass fishing Megastar has been keeping a low profile over the last year. He didn’t have a Top 10 year in the Angler of the Year standings, but did enough to make it back to the Classic.
One thing Iaconelli would like to see is the Classic return to being a season-ending event.
“I would prefer if the Classic was a season closer,” said Iaconelli. “I like some aspects of the Classic kicking off the season, but I prefer it as the season ending event.
Finding fish won’t be a problem for 2012 Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year runner-up Ott DeFoe, but catching fish large enough to take home the Classic title may be.
“What I can tell at this point is that catching fish will not be an issue,” said DeFoe. “I did better on the first day of practice, but I caught fish on all of the days. The problem was I only caught one good fish. I’m not happy with that.
