This Thursday Bassmaster.com rolls out a new live-stream video event called “LIVE on the Lake.” The first one is with Aaron Martens and it is presented by Carhartt. Martens will be fishing Lake Guntersville from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. CT and will take questions from the audience. You can watch the 2015 Bassmaster Angler of the Year ply his trade live, right here on Bassmaster.com. More details below!
The only serious “wound” Aaron Martens suffered during the 2015 Bassmaster Elite Series season came in the most unlikely of places – Alabama’s Lake Guntersville. Not only did Martens top the 100-pound mark (107 1/2) in 2009 when he won a Bassmaster Elite Series tournament there, but the bass fishing mecca is located less than a two-hour drive from his Leeds, Ala., home.
Despite all the advantages, Martens finished 66th last April at Guntersville – the second stop of the season. Martens’ next lowest finish in the other seven regular season Elite Series events was 15th at Kentucky Lake in June.
Martens will have a chance to redeem himself at Lake Guntersville this Thursday, and you can watch it on “Bassmaster LIVE on the Lake” with Aaron Martens, presented by Carhartt. The live broadcast on Bassmaster.com will begin at 10 a.m. CT and conclude at 1 p.m. CT. Tommy Sanders will be in the Bassmaster TV studio in Little Rock with a guest analyst. They’ll convey questions of their own and from the viewing audience.
Martens won’t be facing an angler opponent, just the bass that he misread last spring, much to his dismay.
“I was on them,” Martens recalled. “That’s the only tournament where I didn’t think. I’d had a 28-pound day in practice. I caught ‘em so good that I got stuck on that pattern. Then they were gone. They went to the bank.”
It’s an example of how the best of the best can unexpectedly fail in tournament bass fishing when it’s always about “fishing the moment.”
Check out Martens’ in-the-moment strategies on Lake Guntersville Thursday, and take the opportunity to ask the 2015 Bassmaster Elite Series Angler of the Year a question or two.