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Gage Gordon

Gage Gordon

Founder of King Jigs fishing tackle company and professional walleye angler on the National Walleye Tour

Jul 20, 2026

MarlonHOST
3:38
I want to start my own business, King Jigs.
3:41
Well, I got to a point where I was tired of the jig prices, and so I just started tying them myself.
3:51
And then COVID hit, and I was like, well...
3:55
What am I going to do for money? And at the time, I was tying some really good jigs, and I knew they worked.
4:01
They catch a lot of salmon.
4:03
So me and my dad were talking.
4:04
He was like, hey, why don't we do a fishing company or something? So I had the bright idea of just...

11 MINS LATER

JasonHOST
14:57
like what's the hardest lesson that you've learned
7:57
Like, where do you feel like things started to, you know, kind of take jumps for you, um, or, you know, how, how were you kind of exposed to a higher level of fishing?
8:07
Yeah, so I'd say it'd be later.
8:11
I was always, always had...
8:13
Always really competitive, you know, ever since I was little.
8:17
And we, uh, we raced a lot of dirt bikes, a lot of, you know, off-road stuff, motocross, things like that.
8:23
And I think I was five years old, I had my first dirt bike and I was out racing on the track.
8:28
So it was al- always, like, super competitive, and anything I wanted to do, I just knew, you know, I wanted to give it my all and try to be the best that I could be.

20 MINS LATER

28:09
Like, how do I connect those dots? [laughs]

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