Jesse Tacoronte

Jesse

Tacoronte

Personal Info

Hometown

Orlando,

Florida

Birthdate

August 7, 1967

Family

Danielle (wife), Cody (child)

Hobbies

Serial entrepreneur, designing tackle, marketing, law

Content

Focus on the vertical

By Jesse Tacoronte

Winter and early spring can be frustrating for anglers. Temperatures warm and everyone hits the water expecting bass to be in shallow spawning areas, and then the inevitable cold front pushes...

Meet the Elites: Jesse Tacoronte

By Andy Crawford

Jesse Tacoronte’s path to professional bass fishing began like most — with his father taking him fishing.“My dad and his friends would fish every Friday and Sunday evenings,” the second-year...

Challenges face Elite field at St. Johns River

By Jesse Tacoronte

The day after celebrating a wonderful Christmas with my family, I launched at the St. Johns River to do a bit of scouting for next month’s stop of the Bassmaster Elite Series. And I didn’t have to...

2017 High School All-American: Bryer Pennington

By B.A.S.S. Staff

PRESCOTT, Ark. — New Bassmaster High School All-American presented by DICK'S Sporting Goods team member, Bryer Pennington is a junior at Prescott High School and has been the captain of his bass...

Jesse Tacoronte is searching for that first keeper in the back of a creek early on Day 3.

Wrapping up a rocky rookie run

By Jesse Tacoronte

With a new schedule and, hopefully, two new shoulders, 2018 looks to be full of potential after a rocky first year in the Elites.

These are the breaks

By Jesse Tacoronte

Orlando, I missed you.This marks the first time I’ve been home in six weeks. Man, it feels great to see, my wife, my son, my brother-in-law, my dog and especially my mom and dad. On the drive home...

100 hours of homework

By Jesse Tacoronte

One hundred hours per lake. That’s my best guess on how much time it takes to get ready for a Bassmaster Elite Series event. That’s the minimum.I’ve never been to 90 percent of the venues on this...

Tacoronte tops 20 already

By Steve Wright

Jesse Tacoronte has demonstrated just how quickly your fortunes can change at Lake Okeechobee. Tacoronte's already got an estimated 21-8 on four bass, and one of those is a 1-pounder.The 49-year...

Cherokee: Black ice and hot coffee

By Jesse Tacoronte

It started with the coffee, a 32-ounce piping-hot thermos full of what I thought was a morning wakeup call by the Cherokee Lake boat ramp. But I never really got to taste the coffee that day. Most...

Fantasy Fishing: Get cold-water anglers while they’re hot at Cherokee

By Ronnie Moore

The 2017 season doesn’t kick off with the Bassmaster Classic this year, which will be a change for the Elite Series angler, but Cherokee Lake should prove to be very interesting. It’ll be a cold...

Preparing for the big leagues

By Jesse Tacoronte

Nine perfect days — that’s what it takes to qualify for the Bassmaster Elite Series. You have to have nine absolutely perfect days on the water. I mean flawless. Can you imagine that?Imagine going...

I was always meant to be here

By Jesse Tacoronte

Those are the words my wife told me a few days ago. After taking a break from professional bass fishing in the late 90s to raise our family, she said now is the time I was always meant to be back...