Hunter Baughman, professional fisherman

You know, Hunter, you kind of have to treat this as a business.

This is your profession.

And a lot of folks, you know, maybe dream about being on a professional tour or being a professional hunter or what have you.

But, man, can you tell us a little bit about how hard you worked at Truman? How many spots you logged and all that? Because, I mean, that's part of that backstory that, yeah, you won the tournament, but, man, you worked your tail off to get there.

Yeah.

And so much work before you get there, but yeah, like a normal week Truman or any of them, you know, a normal week is three days of practice.

And those are generally, it doesn't matter if it's 110 degrees or 20 degrees.

Those are generally daylight to dark every day.

It doesn't matter.

You know, you get North in the summer and daylight to dark, it's like five 30 to nine 30.

I mean, it's forever.

Sometimes you can't make it that long three days in a row, but you know, it's, it's always a 12 to 14 hour day.

Um, most of the time we have an off day in between and off day and truly an off day.

There's a lot of goes into tackle prep, getting the boat ready, getting your stuff ready to make sure you're, you're ready to fish the tournament.

There's sponsor obligations going that a lot of times we have to go film some stuff for a sponsor.

They do some outreach events through the NPFL.

So most of the time I'll sign up for those.

We'll go do like an outreach at a school or something while we're there.

By the time you do all that, maybe sleep in a little bit.

If schedules allow, you know, then all of a sudden it's time for dinner and go to bed.

And then it's three more days.

They're not as long.

They're daylight until, depending on what flight you're in, you know, boat number.

But they're daylight until somewhere between three and five of a day, which is a lot shorter day than what we've been practicing.

But, man, they go quick.

You know, Hunter, you kind of have to treat this as a business.

This is your profession.

And a lot of folks, you know, maybe dream about being on a professional tour or being a professional hunter or what have you.

But, man, can you tell us a little bit about how hard you worked at Truman? How many spots you logged and all that? Because, I mean, that's part of that backstory that, yeah, you won the tournament, but, man, you worked your tail off to get there.

Yeah.

And so much work before you get there, but yeah, like a normal week Truman or any of them, you know, a normal week is three days of practice.

And those are generally, it doesn't matter if it's 110 degrees or 20 degrees.

Those are generally daylight to dark every day.

It doesn't matter.

You know, you get North in the summer and daylight to dark, it's like five 30 to nine 30.

I mean, it's forever.

Sometimes you can't make it that long three days in a row, but you know, it's, it's always a 12 to 14 hour day.

Um, most of the time we have an off day in between and off day and truly an off day.

There's a lot of goes into tackle prep, getting the boat ready, getting your stuff ready to make sure you're, you're ready to fish the tournament.

There's sponsor obligations going that a lot of times we have to go film some stuff for a sponsor.

They do some outreach events through the NPFL.

So most of the time I'll sign up for those.

We'll go do like an outreach at a school or something while we're there.

By the time you do all that, maybe sleep in a little bit.

If schedules allow, you know, then all of a sudden it's time for dinner and go to bed.

And then it's three more days.

They're not as long.

They're daylight until, depending on what flight you're in, you know, boat number.

But they're daylight until somewhere between three and five of a day, which is a lot shorter day than what we've been practicing.

But, man, they go quick.