Big Bass Big Stage Big Dreams

Meet the Elites: Jesse Tacoronte

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...

Big Bass Big Stage Big Dreams

Meet the Elites: Keith Combs

Keith Combs caught his first crankbait fish at 4 years old, and while his track record says that he’s mastered the craft, 39 years later he’s still searching for perfection....

Big Bass Big Stage Big Dreams

Meet the Elites: Kelley Jaye

At 12 years old, Kelley Jaye thought his life was over, when it actuality was just beginning. His parents split up and his mother moved him from the city to...

Big Bass Big Stage Big Dreams

Meet the Elites: Randy Sullivan

Gary and Cheryl Sullivan fished in plenty of club bass tournaments in north Texas back in the 1990s with their infant son nestled in the bottom of their boat. So...

Big Bass Big Stage Big Dreams

Meet the Elites: Rick Morris

Rick Morris had been a B.A.S.S. Iron Man until an ailing back caused him to take a medical leave from the Bassmaster Elite Series in 2014. Morris claimed he had...

Big Bass Big Stage Big Dreams

Meet the Elites: Seth Feider

It takes a lot of caffeine to get Seth Feider anywhere close to fired up. He starts his morning with a couple of cups of coffee, then guzzles Mountain Dew...

Big Bass Big Stage Big Dreams

Meet the Elites: Bill Lowen

When the Bassmaster Elite Series launched in 2006, one of its anglers was a rookie from southern Indiana. At season’s end the rookie was 25th in the Bassmaster Angler of...

Big Bass Big Stage Big Dreams

Meet the Elites: Robbie Latuso

Receiving the invitation to join the Bassmaster Elite Series was a “bittersweet experience” for Robbie Latuso. It was sweet for Latuso because he reached a pinnacle he had always sought,...

Big Bass Big Stage Big Dreams

Meet the Elites: Garrett Paquette

Although Garrett Paquette is only 24 years old, he has dreamed of making a living in the sport of bass fishing for more than a decade. He appears to be...

Big Bass Big Stage Big Dreams

Meet the Elites: Patrick Walters

In 2018 Patrick Walters of Summerville, S.C., competed in the Eastern and Central divisions of the Bassmaster Opens. It was to be his first year of a three-year quest to...

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