Fishing League Worldwide
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Sep 14, 2026
Mike IaconelliGUEST
Yeah, you're right
Luke DunkinHOST
... and the days of, the days of crazy that people don't realize, like, where you're fishing the FLW Tour and the Bassmaster Tour at the same time.
Mike IaconelliGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
Luke DunkinHOST
And it's like a payout war.
28 MINS LATER
Mike IaconelliGUEST
Yeah
Luke DunkinHOST
...
Luke DunkinHOST
the last th- 30 years, because you, you talk about those FLW days-
Mike IaconelliGUEST
Yeah
Ken DukeHOST
Operation Bass.
Ken DukeHOST
Operation Bass, yeah, which became FLW.
Ken DukeHOST
So, okay, let's take those guys kind of out of the picture here.
Ken DukeHOST
And I think we should also exclude tournament directors like the Harold Sharps of the world.
Eric AlleeGUEST
KBD.
Eric AlleeGUEST
I mean, it's super simple.
Ken DukeHOST
Can we all agree he's the GOAT of tournament bass fishing? Anybody got a different opinion on that? Eight AOIs if you count the one he won with FLW.
Ken DukeHOST
25 major tournament wins.
JustinGUEST
No, I mean, that's how I grew up fishing and that's how I grew up.
JustinGUEST
That's what I grew up watching was, you know, the, you know, old nineties and two thousands fast master tournaments, FLW, where like those guys are out there grinding.
JustinGUEST
It's all about those decisions.
JustinGUEST
Like, do I stay here? Like your classic intro, like, do I stay here? Do I go over there? Like, that's what it comes down to.
Big EdHOST
He's fished Bassmaster.
Big EdHOST
He's fished FLW.
Big EdHOST
He's fished all this stuff, and trust me, he knows what it's supposed to look like.
Big EdHOST
He wants it to look right, and he wants you guys to have nothing but respect and to have you...
Isaac LakichGUEST
a 200-yard, 400-yard, two-mile stretch, you know what I mean?
Adam BartusekHOST
Yeah, so I think it's – that's kind of, I think, what's probably changed a lot since the – I mean, whether it's the FLW all-night days or even earlier, the NWT and stuff, when it was like – I feel like the true team wall.
Adam BartusekHOST
I think that people think of was when like guys would get back at night and be like, meet me here.
Adam BartusekHOST
We're all top five.
Rich LindgrenHOST
I'm never going to fish the All-American.
GabeGUEST
It's like Brian Thrift winning the last FLW Cup.
GabeGUEST
That's the last one.
GabeGUEST
It's done.
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GabeGUEST
That's, that was their platform.
GabeGUEST
That's, that's in the blood.
GabeGUEST
So maybe their vision was to buy FLW, push the pro circuit and the upper tier to create revenue and use the BFLs and the Toyotas to kind of fund some of that marketing.
Rich LindgrenHOST
Yeah.
Kent BrownHOST
Cavros had a big one, had 504, and Chuck's a great backseat angler.
Kent BrownHOST
He gets it, and he traveled for years, had a lot of great finishes with EMLF and FLW, traveled across country with Jimmy Reese and the whole crew, so cool to see that.
Kent BrownHOST
Chuck said it was a – I texted him last night.
Kent BrownHOST
He said it was a wild ride, so we may have to hear from Chuck as well.
Pete GluszekHOST
Uh, just really amazing stuff.
Pete GluszekHOST
I, I fished, uh, uh, one of the, uh, the old FLW championships, uh, that had a million dollar payout.
Pete GluszekHOST
Um, which was just it's just you know that at that time it was just phenomenal to even be thinking about it so to see this happening now uh taking it to the next level is going to be pretty awesome it's going to be going on like you said down at old hickory lake and uh It's going to be going to be very, very interesting tournament.
Pete GluszekHOST
And I want to cut I want to ask you a few questions about and we're kind of going to lead into what the patterns might be on on Kentucky Lake.
Zack BirgeGUEST
Go ahead.
Tom RedingtonHOST
So, so we used to have the, you know, the Cups would be the FLW championships.
Tom RedingtonHOST
That'd be late, uh, late August.
Tom RedingtonHOST
And then, you know, you've got a tournament coming up here that last NPFL.
46 MINS LATER
Zack BirgeGUEST
Like, have to have a limit, and then we can worry about a bigger one.
Zack BirgeGUEST
And I always Believe that if you can catch 100 bass a day, your odds of having a big bag are greater than if you catch 10 or 15 bass a day, uh, trying to target a bigger size fish.
Zack BirgeGUEST
Um, so that's how I've always been, uh, ever since then all the way through FLW Tour days.
Zack BirgeGUEST
Um, every tournament I fish today, also NPFL, BPT, like both.
DaltonHOST
He's one of the hosts of Bass After Dark and the Big Bass Podcast, and a guy who has built an incredible knowledge of the records, personalities, tournaments, and stories that make up the history of bass fishing.
DaltonHOST
Ken has worked with and covered Bassmaster, FLW, MLF, and the National Professional Fishing League.
DaltonHOST
And today continues to be involved with the MPFL on the media side of things.
DaltonHOST
Um, but the reason I really wanted Ken to come on tonight and talk with us, it goes far beyond his resume.
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Ken DukeGUEST
It was not until he attended a Bassmaster Classic and saw all the hoopla of that that he said, hey, you know, I'm going to change gears here, see if I can't qualify for the Elite Series and make a living as a bass pro.
Ken DukeGUEST
And I think that's wild.
DaltonHOST
And I noticed too, like that's the big difference between me and my dad, you know, when he was qualifying or, you know, trying to qualify for the FLW fishing, the ever starts and stuff, he grew up fishing, you know, pike with grandpa and stuff like that.
DaltonHOST
So he had so much of that background and had to learn the best stuff from scratch where honestly, in my twenties, I was already at the point he was in his, you know, what took him to 40 to get to.
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