Bass fishing

So it really upped my confidence that people were believing in you.

And fishing, what bass fishing is, especially competitive fishing, believing in yourself, do the best you can do on that given day in your tournament and leave it all out there on the water.

That's all you can do.

That people overthink competitive fishing.

Was there ever a time where you're like, man, what's going on? I'm in a rut.

That'll happen too.

You've got to take the good with the bad in bass fishing.

And there's a guy named Mike Iaconelli from New Jersey.

Mike Iaconelli coming to the club tonight to talk to you all.

We're going to celebrate the career of Mike Iaconelli and his prowess as an inspiration to all of us in bass fishing.

Pretty stoked about that.

We have Mike.

Absolutely.

Hey,

Andy, you there? Are you there from an undisclosed location producing the heck out of this thing? Bass Galaxy, give it up for one of the most amazing producers in bass fishing podcast history.

It's the one and only Andrew Ellenberger.

Wow.

uh so i mean you know the bass fishing is still wonderful and that that's going on all the time golf

course still in great shape

golf course is doing probably two and a half times what it did three years ago so it it's it's doing well um in fact i think the pro told me the other day said we're we're at what we did last year in the middle of October.

I think that the –

I always want to talk about the,

you know, what little bit I know about bass fishing.

I thought that tournament was a big deal, and I was looking up those numbers for you this morning to see exactly how many bass were, you know, what was caught and what the weight was and all that, but I know it was a topic of discussion for our bass fishing commissioners, you know, that are doing this.

Right now we're going to give away something.

Callers number two and three will win a pair of hospitality passes to the World Championship of Bass Fishing Fan Festival and Expo at Gaylord Opryland Resort in Old Hickory Lake.

You can also qualify to win a pair of tickets to see Riley Green and Randy Hauser at the Pinnacle this Friday, October 30th.

Again, we'll have two winners.

And $1.25 million for first place, an overall total purse of $3.25 million.

There's so many moving parts of this event and it's going to be an awesome week.

So just a true celebration of the sport of bass fishing.

So Dalton, thanks for doing this, man.

And so I grew up as kind of like a bass fisherman, you know, like just like the traditional kind of lures.

And I used to watch Jimmy Houston Outdoors, and that's what really got me into bass fishing.

So...

What I recall was that at some point in, I guess, the early 1990s, whatever channel I used to watch Jimmy Houston on, it was some cable channel from the Midwest or Mid-South or something.

I didn't really have any idea what I was going to do with this thing, but what I did know was that I had relatives in Florida.

And, um, my grandparents lived on a golf course in, in near Fort Lauderdale.

And as a kid growing up, that was my, that was my home, but not my home waters, but that was where I really learned to bass, bass fishing on golf courses.

Yeah.

And that just spoke to...

the changing conditions, man, it was, uh, it was absolutely, it was one of the biggest one eighties I've seen in tournament bass fishing, as far as what I've been around.

And, and I've been in some brutal, brutal front situations over the years.

This one was wild.

No doubt about it.

But while we're talking about payouts,

Dude, I said a couple weeks ago that October is the money month in bass fishing.

And you had the Holtzman Angler, Half Mill, Nick LeBron, James LeBron, Nick LeBron pulled that thing out.