Heavy Hitters! We are Major League Fishing intensive today with the winner of last week’s huge Heavy Hitters event at Lake Palestine in Texas. Ott DeFoe won 100k by winning the event but Alton Jones, Jr. won $165,000 by landing the largest bass in three of the four days of Heavy Hitters competition. Go figure! Ott DeFoe also talks about his incredible career. Still only 36 years old, Ott is about to break the three-million-dollar mark in career winnings, an amazing accomplishment at such an early age! DeFoe and Jones, Jr.! What a great pair of anglers!
Dan Johnston from St. Croix joins us to talk about many of the major innovations that St. Croix has announced or will announce shortly. What does this mean to the average angler? Listen to Dan explain what it’s all about.
We also welcome a special guest for his first appearance on our show. Call the folks at the Guinness Book of World Records because we are claiming he is the youngest person to make an appearance on a podcast. Please welcome, Maximus Nierman who was born to our Executive Producer, Brad Nierman and his lovely wife, Olivia only seven days prior to the recording. Give Baby Max a listen, he sounds great!

We use the term “hot stick” quite a bit. Our featured guest isn’t just a “hot stick,” Oklahoman Jason Christie is a “nuclear stick.” He won the Bassmaster Classic earlier this year on Lake Hartwell. He follows that up with a huge six-figure win on Lake Chickamauga this month. How does he do it? Can anyone beat him? Will he ever cool off? Listen to Jason Christie explain his hot roll. Christie isn’t a flash in the pan. He’s won seven major events and has a second-place Angler of the Year finish to his credit. What’s next for Jason Christie? Listen to him explain it!
Dan Johnston from St. Croix joins us to talk about how to find the unseen hotspots on a body of water. Everybody is throwing to docks and stumps but there are plenty of great fish-holding spots that you can’t see with the naked eye. How do we find them? Dan Johnston tells us.
We welcome Connor Bevan for his first appearance on our show. He is the Inland Fisheries Policy Manager at the American Sportfishing Association. Listen to Connor explain his very important job.

What’s better than a double header? Not talking about two anglers hooking fish at the same time – talking about having two great star anglers sharing the main interview segment on the same show. This is a first for us. Sharing the spotlight are Kentucky’s Matt Robertson and Wisconsin’s Caleb Kuphall. They both finished in the top five at the Bassmaster Elite Series event on Lake Chickamauga. They discuss their tactics and strategies for attacking this legendary body of water. Matt Robertson talks about his “On Em” brand that is showing up on hats and shirts all over the country. Caleb Kuphall explains his new sponsor relationship with our friends at St. Croix, the best rods on Earth. Give a listen to two great anglers who are also two of the nicest guys you’ve ever met.
Dan Johnston from St. Croix joins us to talk about color selection. Red? Blue? Silver? What are the factors in selecting a bait color. Dan will help us all to figure out the answer to that important question.
Marc Mills, the Senior Marketing Manager from Daiwa Corporation joins us to talk about their incredible products and what’s in the future for them. They’ve got your bass covered, we hope you know!!!

Buddy Gross is a Bassmaster Elite Series angler from Chickamauga, Georgia who opened the Elite season with a huge win on Florida’s Harris Chain. It was a tough bite that proved the ingenuity and tenacity of this excellent fisherman. Listen to one of the sport’s truly good guys talk to us about the upcoming season, electronics, his career and subjects as diverse as fishing with Alabama rigs and the use of live bait. He doesn’t hold back. Give Buddy a listen.
Dan Johnston from St. Croix joins us to talk about the hottest innovation in fishing – forward facing sonar. What is it? How does it work? Why are some people demanding to have it banned?
Jerod Napier from Casting Freedom joins us to talk about the excellent work that his group is doing.

He’s the Champion! “Big Fish” Bobby Lane just won the big trophy and a check for $300,000 at the Major League Fishing Redcrest Championship at Grand Lake of the Cherokees in Tulsa, Oklahoma! It was the most incredibly exciting finish to a pro bass fishing tournament that ever occurred. With only 2-minutes and 45-seconds left in the tournament, Lane caught a fish that had to be weighed three times and finally scored exactly two-pounds on the scale. It was barely legal but big enough to allow Bobby Lane to claim a victory. What drama! Lane’s father called him “Bobby Humble” when he was growing up and the name still fits him. Listen to a great fisherman and one of the nicest guys in the sport tell his story!
Dan Johnston from St. Croix joins us to talk about spring’s changing conditions. The changes aren’t always for the benefit of fishermen and Dan talks about how to handle changing conditions that make fishing tougher.
Tom Goodrich from Fishing for Life joins us to talk about what his great group does for kids and the sport of fishing.