HELLABASS Bass Fishing Podcast
Oct 22, 2026 · 2 hr 10 min · 14 segments
On the even of Eve of Bassmaster EQ kickoff on Toledo Bend, Elite Angler Academy Clark Reehm joins to discuss Bassmaster Elite Series Qualification, FFS & Sonar Tips, and Finding Fall Bass! Learn…
Rich LindgrenHost
And obviously, I mean, I guess bass pro tour interviews are higher than they ever been.
Elite Series entry fees are almost nothing, but the payouts have been slashed accordingly.
So unless you're winning, I mean, if you're winning, then it's a really great deal.
And some of these guys, I applaud them for putting in two to 300 days, you know, I do think I do, regardless of who's winning the bill, whether they're eating ramen and sleeping in the back of their truck and self funding, or they're getting, you know, friends and family or, or whatever, they're still putting in the time.
Uh, and to some degree, the younger guys are treating it more like a sport now than ever in the past.
But on the flip side, a lot of them aren't building their own personal platforms.
And I feel like that's a really high, that's not something you just flip the switch.
Just because you make the lead series doesn't mean you're going to wake up with 20,000 Instagram followers and 10,000 YouTube followers.
go through and look at some of these pros and see who in the infancy of like Instagram and some of these places paid for followers because they instantly had massively skewed, you know, follower accounts.
And it's like, you know, you and I have built organically through the years and how slow because the numbers of fans of fishing and the grand scheme of things, fishing is so tiny, right? in the grand scheme of things in the country, as far as it's a French sport, it just doesn't have the value we have.
Like when you say fishing, are you saying like tournament bass fishing or you just think fishing, fishing?
And obviously, I mean, I guess bass pro tour interviews are higher than they ever been.
Elite Series entry fees are almost nothing, but the payouts have been slashed accordingly.
So unless you're winning, I mean, if you're winning, then it's a really great deal.
And some of these guys, I applaud them for putting in two to 300 days, you know, I do think I do, regardless of who's winning the bill, whether they're eating ramen and sleeping in the back of their truck and self funding, or they're getting, you know, friends and family or, or whatever, they're still putting in the time.
Uh, and to some degree, the younger guys are treating it more like a sport now than ever in the past.
But on the flip side, a lot of them aren't building their own personal platforms.
And I feel like that's a really high, that's not something you just flip the switch.
Just because you make the lead series doesn't mean you're going to wake up with 20,000 Instagram followers and 10,000 YouTube followers.
go through and look at some of these pros and see who in the infancy of like Instagram and some of these places paid for followers because they instantly had massively skewed, you know, follower accounts.
And it's like, you know, you and I have built organically through the years and how slow because the numbers of fans of fishing and the grand scheme of things, fishing is so tiny, right? in the grand scheme of things in the country, as far as it's a French sport, it just doesn't have the value we have.
Like when you say fishing, are you saying like tournament bass fishing or you just think fishing, fishing?
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