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A quarter of a million dollars for catching bass! Isn’t that totally amazing? Alabama guide, Brent Crow just won the Toyota Series Championship presented by Guaranteed Rate at Alabama’s Pickwick Lake. Crow sat in 28th place after day one. He qualified to fish the final day by finishing day two in 10th place. He saved his best for last and weighed a final day bag of 23 pounds, 1 ounce to finish over four pounds ahead of the second-place finisher. What a clutch performance! Crow shares some excellent information about fishing water where the DNR raises and lowers the water level. If you fish waterways like this, you will definitely be interested in what Brent Crow has to say.Dan Johnston from St. Croix is with us to share some important information regarding ice fishing safety.Bassmaster Elite fisherman, John Crews joins us to talk about his company, Missile Baits, and to discuss the 2022 Bassmaster Classic. Crews also offers some great fishing tips that will be of help to everyone.

Nick LeBrun just won the Bassmaster Central Open on Oklahoma’s Grand Lake. It was a tough bite with top pros only getting a strike about every 45 minutes or so. It was definitely a thinking man’s tournament. Listen to Nick explain how he figured out the way to put a limit in the boat. This interview is an incredible tutorial about the ins-and-outs of topwater fishing. We guarantee that what Nick LeBrun tells us all about his mastery of throwing Whopper Ploppers will make us all better bass fishermen in the future. Enjoy!Guillermo Gonzalez is the Kayak Bass Fishing 2021 National Championship! He is most assuredly on the Yak Attack!Dan Johnston from St. Croix is with us to share an introduction to the world of ice fishing.

He is the biggest star on the many enterprises that Lindner Media produces that is not named Lindner – he is Jeremy Smith. When we had Jeremy on the air the first year we did We Fish ASA, the response was tremendous. I’m not sure why it’s taken us so long to have him back, but we are very happy that we did. Among other things, Jeremy talks about huge fall toothy fish. You know, Jeremy is a noted musky expert and he proves it here. Please give Jeremy a listen!Legendary Hall of Fame angler, Spence Petros, joins us to explain how he got into the fishing business.Dan Johnston from St. Croix is with us to talk moving baits versus baits that contact the bottom. Strong stuff!

We always say that we are pleased to offer you conversation with the most interesting, the most informative, the most entertaining, as well as some of the biggest names in the world of fishing. This week we cover all three categories in a single guest. We are honored to be able to talk to “America’s Favorite Fisherman,” the one-and-only Jimmy Houston! What else can we say? Please give Jimmy a listen!Legendary bass professional, Mike McClelland, joins us to talk bass fishing and using Big Bite Baits, one of the hottest plastics on the market.Dan Johnston from St. Croix is with us to talk about equipment maintenance. I guess that means that fishing season is nearing its end. Boo! 

Hall of Fame! It doesn’t get much better than that. Tommy Keenan was just elected to the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame for his legendary career in walleye fishing. He’s a man who was once handed a check for $300,00 for catching monster ‘eyes. He stood on the stage after being crowned the 2019 Angler of the Year and shocked the world by announcing his retirement. Listen to Tommy recap his career and talk about what he is doing right now.Ken Duke, the editor of Fishing Tackle Retailer magazine, knows more about the fishing industry than anyone we know. He joins us to share an update on the state of today’s fishing business.Dan Johnston from St. Croix explains one of fishing’s hottest technologies – forward-facing sonar. 

Michael Neal is one of fishing’s best kept secrets. Well, he was a secret. On Lake St. Clair, Neal, a Tennessee angler, boated the heaviest Championship round weight in MLF Bass Pro Tour history – 58 bass weighing 168-11. Neal destroyed the field and finished 76-pounds - 2-ounces ahead of the second-place finisher. Amazing! Neal should never have been a secret, as he entered his third season on the MLF Bass Pro Tour with 32 Top 10’s, three major wins and over $1,000,000 in career winnings. This guy in darned good!Dave was recently fishing a huge Toyota Series MLF event on the Potomac River. When his amateur partner got in the boat, the angler took out a fly rod. Was Dave shocked by Kierran Mooney’s choice of fishing techniques? Listen to Dave and Kierran talk about it.Dan Johnston from St. Croix explains one of fishing’s true mysteries – fall turnover.

He’s the man with fishing’s coolest nickname – Mister Crappie Wally Marshall. He is the busiest guy around, running the Red River Challenge on September 30 through October 2. It’s the annual Crappie Classic Invitational, a $250,000 tournament to crown the 2021 crappie champion. The event also features “Crappie Expo,” miles and miles of exhibits featuring all things crappie! The Crappie Expo also features the world’s biggest crappie fry! No catch and release here, folks. Listen to Wally Marshall talk crappies!Trey McKinney is the only 16-year-old fisherman to ever win an Angler of the Year award in a major fishing tournament circuit. Trey is the goods! Listen to him talk about his incredible career. There’s no limit to what Trey McKinney can do in his fishing career.Spinning or casting? Casting or spinning? Who better to ask about that than Dan Johnston from St. Croix, that’s who!

When your father is a champion walleye angler, wouldn’t it make sense for the son to follow in his footsteps chasing big ‘eyes? Not in this case! Adam Neu has broken the mold and has become a professional bass fisherman. And quite the successful bass fisherman this young man has become. He’s mixing it up with the big boys on the Bass Opens and doing a heck of a great job. Is the Elite Circuit and a Bassmaster Classic in Adam Neu’s future? We certainly think so. Listen to Adam tell his story.He used to be the Field Marketing Manager for Daiwa. Who deserves a promotion more than our good friend, Marc Mills. Let Marc tell us all about it and also what’s going on at Daiwa!Who better to talk to as we roll from late summer fishing into early fall fishing? Dan Johnston from St. Croix, that’s who!

We wanted to have a bass angler on for our guest this week. We also wanted to have a great pro walleye fisherman on as a guest this week. We also wanted to have a musky expert on this week. We decided to cover all the bases by having John Hoyer on the show. John fishes, and wins, tournaments for bass, walleyes and muskies. He may be the best multi-species fisherman in the country today. Listen to John and let him make you a better fisherman.Jeff Kolodzinski is the Marathon Man. He has the world record for the most fish caught in a 24-hour period. He’s going to try to break he record again. Can he do it? We’ll ask him about it.Dan Johnston from St. Croix is on hand to talk about line. Braid? Fluoro? Mono? Dan will tell you what you ought to be using.

Bassmaster Elite pro Chris Johnston jumped brands to take a huge win in the Major League Fishing Toyota Series Northern Division event on the Saint Lawrence River. This event has confounded Johnston in the past, but now the monkey is off his back Everyone thinks Chris Johnston is a smallmouth specialist but the Canadian grew up catching largemouth. Listen to him explain how he has mastered the smallmouth world. Executive Director Pat Neu of the National Professional Anglers Association joins us to invite all to the huge annual NPAA Conference that will be in Northern Ohio this year.Dan Johnston from St. Croix is on hand to talk about seasonal movements, a great topic.