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Lancen Halbert

Lancen Halbert

Dentist from Simpsonville, SC, and competitive fisherman featured on State of Sportfishing podcast discussing the 56 Freeman Hull #2 boat build for tournament fishing.

Aug 18, 2026

LeoHOST
8:38
Oh, my-
8:39
But no better way to, no better way to break it in, you know? Um, which was, which was super cool.
8:44
We went out on day one and, uh, you know, saw some pretty water up around the Wilmington.
8:48
Just kinda had...
8:49
It was, it was dissipating a little bit from the days before, but it was still there and, and we probably had half the fleet head up that way, and half the fleet went south.
8:57
And, um, we had, uh, I think we had four bites day one.
9:03
Um, didn't land a fish.

22 MINS LATER

MarkHOST
30:46
[laughs] What's something you didn't expect about the boat?
LeoHOST
1:14
Lancen, can you give us a little bit, kind of a chronological layout of how your boss kind of stepped into this 56 Freeman? Like, what was his first boat and eventually led to the 56?
1:26
Sure, man.
1:27
Sure, man.
1:27
So we, um, I met him about s- eight, eight, nine years ago now.
1:31
We've, we've become really, really good friends.
1:33
Um, he runs a big private equity firm out of Greenville, South Carolina, where I'm from, and met him, and, um, he had some interest in the outdoors, and he started fishing with me.
1:42
I had an old, uh, a 34 Freeman.

22 MINS LATER

LeoHOST
23:32
So what was the build spec process like? Like, did you guys go in, like, a conference room, sit down, and you say, "This, this, this, this, and this"? Like, what's that process like?

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