You can ask anyone about Aaron Martens' run for victory this year, and they would tell you he did it his way. So, it was fitting that while at Sturgeon Bay for the Toyota Bassmaster Angler of the Year Championship, Jim Sexton saw this road sign and took a photo.
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He brought it in to the B.A.S.S. headquarters office in Birmingham, Ala., for Martens to see ...
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He also talked about one of the nicknames he's earned this year, Fish Whisperer.
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"They don't really whisper to me, but I know what they're saying," he said. "I've always had a connection with animals -- fish, dogs, cats, birds." The 'birds' was a reference to his blackbird pattern at Havasu.
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Bryan Brasher, center, shows Martens the new cover of B.A.S.S. Times Magazine ...
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James Hall, editor of Bassmaster Magazine, cracks Lesley up when he shows her this issue's cover.
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... such as what his fishing superstitions are. (He doesn't have any, and he takes bananas on the boat to prove it.)
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... and Aaron takes a closer look at the real cover of B.A.S.S. Times.
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