Gerald Swindle

This one comes to mind.

Gerald Swindle.

He said the

name.

But he was a good sport, man.

Me and James Watson and Gerald Swindle, we made his life a living hell at times, picking at him and doing impressions.

You know, it was always a gag.

Mike Iaconelli and Brian the Carpenter and crew would call me and have me, you know, and reach out and have me call into Ike Live long before Low Budget Live existed and have me do a Bill Taylor impression.

I'm not sure how many.

He's got two brand-new knees, and now he can add to his resume – bass fishing commentator because he will be joining the live crew at the world bass enterprises the champions event in nashville tennessee at the desk and lord have mercy it's pay-per-view so anything goes that's what i've been told you could say whatever uh it's they're rolling the dice You're going to have Chad JT, Kenny, and the one and only joining us right now.

Gerald swindle.

All right.

So depending on those who are below 70th, you get a lot of those veterans who are really safe.

For example, this year you had a Greg Hackney, you get a Gerald Swindle, you get some of these guys that are below 70th that their average is so good because they've done so well for so long that... they're going to be at the head of the line you know they're they're going to be when we reshuffle the deck and organize those 30 based on aoi average 14 or 15 or whatever it is that make it back safely via average they get pushed to the top and then it's the the younger guys the middle of the road averages and then you obviously have the bottom the worst averages of the field and and that's how it gets sorted out and so this year was a little different because top 70 were safe Dylan Nutt was not on the Elite Series, but the Elite Series field requires that we have a classic champion in it from the most recent season.

And so just like if like Easton Fothergill wins the classic at Ray Roberts and finishes last in AOI, he gets the chance to be in the Elite Series the next year from winning.

He has earned that opportunity.

So it's a lot of numbers and we're not purposely making it confusing, but But there's a lot of factors to take a look at.

Okay, understood.

So say you're Gerald Swindles and guys like that that have been around a long time, like you said.

If they finish outside of the top 70, they are safe, not because they've been around for a long time necessarily, but because their career average is so good, right? So he's safe this year because his career average has been so good over the years, but a below 70th is going to slightly lower that average, right?

Um, I got to see the run of show this week on the run, uh, on the opening ceremonies, and man, it was really, really cool.

Uh, it toasted by, uh, Lurch, uh, Gerald Swindle, and Randy Moss.

[laughs] What a combo.

Uh, yeah, it was.

[laughs] So that's that.

My favorite technique for fishing, I honestly don't know if I can actually say a favorite technique, and I feel sort of like Gerald Swindle.

Like, I, I, I'm, like, so cool with being a junk fisherman.

Yeah.

Bass fishing science.

And things Gerald Swindle would say.

Oh, God.

Okay.

Well, I don't know how Jeopardy works, so I'm going to go first.

Okay, so you need to pick a category then.

It will be things Gerald Swindle says, bass fishing history, or bass master.

Sorry, bass

... obviously it's not like fluoro, you know, so that's a, a good thing.

And, and there are, hey, Gerald Swindle and others will tell you, you know, their buzzbaits and everything else, a lot of times mono is the way to go.

And, uh, you know, Rick Clunn has always been a big mono fan.

He goes, "Whenever I hear about guys breaking everything off, I know what they're doing." And, and, uh, you know, so he likes it.