Kevin Van Dam
In the world of professional bass fishing, Kevin VanDam is at the pinnacle and arguably the best in the world.
He’s the complete package – fierce competitor with multiple championships, ambassador to the sport, and family man.
Professional bass fishing has risen to a major sports level in recent years with regular season and national championships televised on ESPN2.
“When it comes to professional bass fishing, Kevin VanDam is as close to perfection as I’ve ever seen,” says ESPN Outdoors Commentator Mark Zona. “in my mind, he is the best of this era and will be the best I cover as long as I am a commentator.”
In fact, VanDam was honored with the first-ever Outdoorsman of the Year ESPY trophy at ESPN’s televised awards program in 2002.
As the all-time money winner on the Bassmaster Tournament trail, VanDam has earned more than $4.1 million into 2010, captured three Bassmaster Classic titles (2001,2005, 2010) and five Toyota Tundra Angler of Year titles (1992, ‘96, ‘99, ‘08 and ‘09).
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Al Lindner
Over the past forty years, Al Lindner has become a world-renowned sport-fishing leader. He is a member of three different fishing halls of fame. He and his brother Ron were co-founders of Lindy Tackle as well as In-Fisherman, Inc., which has become North America’s largest multimedia sport fishing network. The In-Fisherman magazine, In-Fisherman television, as well as radio shows, books, videos, calendars, website, and professional walleye tournament circuit are all a part of this organization. Today, Al and Ron and their sons are still highly involved in the sport fishing industry. The operate Lindner Media Productions which produces various television shows including their own Angling Edge/Fishing Edge Television shows. They also make commercials for many of the biggest companies in the sport fishing industry.
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t fish. My earliest recollections are the summers I spent with my grandmother on a lake near Hayward, Wisconsin. For me it meant countless hours of fishing from shore or wading while collecting frogs, seining minnows, running through the woods with my friend from next door, and occasionally getting a chance to fish with my uncles in a boat. I also fished with my older brother, Ron, who was ten years my senior, when he came up for a two-week vacation. If I dug the worms, seined the minnows, fixed the tackle, and loaded the boat, he would take me out with him. He told me that everyone starts out first as a “worm boy” apprentice, and for years I believed him. These were idyllic and really innocent times.
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Mike Iaconelli
Mike Iaconelli has been fishing his entire life, he enjoys developing knowledge on numerous lakes, reservoirs, and rivers throughout the country. Mike spends approximately 200 days a year on the water. He enjoys guiding part-time, writing fishing articles and designing lures. Mike also participates in numerous fishing shows and seminars throughout the year.
"He's not one of the old style fishermen. He is a fast-talking, intense, summa cum laude graduate of Rowan University".
- New York Times -
Career Winnings over $1,644,834
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Dan Armitage
Dan Armitage, is America's premier kids interactive program specialist.
Dan’s articles appear in Outdoor Life, Sports Afield, In-Fisherman, Trailer BOATS, Bass & Walleye BOATS, Camping Life and several regional outdoor magazines. He works with the national “Hooked On fishing , Not On Drugs” program to conduct educational fishing seminars for youths across North America. His weekly outdoor radio program is broadcast on more than a dozen Midwest stations each Saturday.
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Lee Bailey Jr
Lee Bailey 'OO7' is one of the Nations most highly respected pros, as well as one of fishing 's most popular personalities. He has won tournaments at all levels, including the prestigious tournament trail of the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society. Lee has also competed in three BASSMASTER Classics, 2 FLW championships and earned three consecutive BASSMASTER Elite Series Cards.
Lee has compiled more than 27 years of competitive bass fishing knowledge in the waters around the United States. His success and experience has earned him the reputation as one of the premiere bass fishermen to come out of the Northeast.
Author, bass fishing guide, lure designer, tournament champion, lecturer, tournament organizer, promoter, environmentalist and teacher of fishing skill all describe Lee Bailey, Jr. Lee's many written articles have been featured in numerous publications including BASSMASTER, B.A.S.S. Times and In-Fisherman magazines.
A dedicated family man, Lee, his wife Carol and daughter Dawn, are working together on "007 Design Series". This project has developed from a part time anglers Promotion network to a full time Web Design and Marketing team. Having managed some of the Northeast's most successful tournaments, including the Foxwoods Bass Challenge Tour, has given Lee the reputation of being "the person" to have on board when you want to be promoted and branded at the top of the industry.
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Darrell Baker
Darrell Baker has been able to fish, guide and participate in tournaments from the Arctic Circle to the Amazon and beyond! He has won numerous tournaments in the past including the prestigious, Hemmingway, Brown, "The Big One", Cohorama, Salmarama, The Pepsi-Cola Chain-O-Lakes Derby--first in eight divisions in five years! His credits include dozens of other local smaller events that have been won by him. Darrell has been or is on the Pro Staff of several prestigious tackle companies including Grandt Rods, Stren, Lurh Jensen, Fish Hawk, Cortland, Lindy-Little Joe, Normark, Mini-Mite and Daiwa
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Len Harris
Len Harris is from southwestern Wisconsin in "The Driftless Heart". There are over 1,290 miles of
designated trout streams in the area and Len has fished them all in his 48 years of small stream
trout angling. Len targets "BIG" small stream trout and is unique in his approach. He uses spin and
fly gear both. Len always says: "Use the proper tool for the job."
Len has appeared on numerous local fishing television shows. His appearance on Tony Dean Outdoors
was his first and "favorite" television appearance. His stories and photos have appeared in numerous
magazines. His "The Driftless Heart" article and story was the "Expedition Feature" in July/August 2010
American Angler Magazine. Len has written for Midwest Outdoors Magazine for three years. He has been
in Midwest Fly Fishing Magazine three times with photos and a couple stories.
Len is semi-retired after 26 years in law enforcement. Len guided for five years in the area but hung that up 2 years ago. Len maintains a blog with many wonderful photos and stories on it. The blog is called "The Stream Of Time" and can be located on the net at: http://lenharris.blogspot.com He has spoken at many schools and trout unlimited chapters. His emphasis is to try to get the children interested in the outdoors and get them out from in front of the computer and out on the stream. He has been married to his beautiful wife Barb for 21 years and they have a daughter named Anna that can out fish most boys her age...
Don House
I’m a US Coast Guard licensed full time fishing guide on Table Rock Lake and Taneycomo Lake for Bass, Crappie, Trout and Spoonbill. My specialty is deep water fishing tactics with many types of live and artificial baits. I have accumulated over 15 years of tournament fishing experience and refined the skills needed to teach you how to find and catch the fish you are looking for.
I started fishing back when I was a young boy living in Kansas City fishing for crappie, bass and trout in and around the Missouri and Kansas lakes and state parks. I grew up fishing at Bennett Springs State Park for rainbow trout with flies and fly rods and of course cheese balls. That’s for you Mom and Dad. My parents felt it was better to keep their boys busy with fishing, camping and Boy Scouts - all three of us are Eagle Scouts. Little did they know they were planting a seed that would grow in me, a son that fished for a living.
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Devin Juel
Born in Omaha, Nebraska, I was raised in Iowa and now live here with my wife, Krista, and sons, Derek and Jackson. I work full time as a firefighter/paramedic for the DMFD with a schedule that gives me plenty of time for hunting. I have always enjoyed being outdoors, but did not discover my true passion for hunting until later in life.
Since my first hunt, though, I have been hooked and spend every extra hour I have in the woods either hunting, patterning, scouting, or as a guide to my coworkers and friends. The sounds of nature, the thrill of being on a hunt and the spiritual connection spending time in the woods are what inspired me to share this time with others.
I started my own production company: HeadBone Productions and we launched our first show; Average Joe’s Huntin’ Show on the Pursuit Channel this year. In 2011 we will air season 2 of Average Joe’s Huntin’ Show and are adding another show to our production company family called; Kashin’ In.
I am a member of the International Association of Firefighters, Local 4, National Rifle Association, Iowa Firearms, National Wild Turkey Federation - Sponsor Level, I-80 Gobblers Committee Member, Union Sportsman Alliance, Ducks Unlimited, Pheasants Forever and the Izaak Walton League of America, Emerson Hough Chapter. I'm also a diehard Iowa Hawkeye and New York Yankee Fan!
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Michele Leqve
Michele Leqve has only been bow hunting for the past 11 years, and in that time, she has taken many, big game animals and has 9 different species! She has 15 Pope & Young Class animals. She started bow hunting in the fall of 1996. She met her husband Jim in 1995 and quickly found out that he was a bow hunter only, so she put down her gun and quickly followed in his foot steps. She and her husband Jim travel all over the United States , Canada , Mexico , and South Africa pursuing the animals the love to hunt. Her most precious trophy is the 9 1/2 foot Polar Bear she took in Nunavut Canada ( Baffin Bay ) on April 14th 2006 , where she became the first woman to take a Polar Bear with a bow! Michele has a new DVD out called, “Hunting Nanuq with Xtreme Bowhuntress Michele Leqve” it features her Polar Bear hunt and 4 of her other big game animals, including Caribou, Whitetail, Black Bear & Elk.
Michele is a field producer and has been on two TV shows that aired on the Sportsman’s Channel. One was; Greg Hopf’s “DEER QUEST” Outdoor Adventures TV Show, and the other one was “WomenHunters® Outdoors” TV Show. She is previously filming for the upcoming TV show “ASAT® Nation” which will air on the Sportsman’s channel.
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Aaron McAlexander
Aaron is an Indiana native and the current President of the Purdue University Bass Fishing Club. As a die-hard angler, he even hand-makes his very own fishing lures and has patented his own casting technique, “Shooter” which involves bending the rod back in a slingshot-like fashion.
- Leader of the N Gage Nation
- ESPN featured Angling Expert
- Creator of "SHOOTER" slingshot-style casting technique
- Past President of Purdue University Bass Fishing Club
- Multiple Winner Competitive Bass Tournaments
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Kristen Monroe
Kristen Monroe has learned how to white tail bowhunt, shoot a hand gun, pheasant hunt and waterfowl hunt all in one year. Kristen began her career working with Outdoor News Publications in 2007. Although she has always loved being outdoors it wasn’t until just recently that she finally put her dreams into action. As a mother of two, her children helped motivate her to learn the sport. Wanting to be a good mother and teach her children with her husband the all American sport of hunting and being outdoors. What other sport is there that you can actually get the whole family involved? Kristen is truly passionate about escalating the sport of hunting. Not only does she talk about it she is actually doing something about it. Besides her hunting goal she has also interviewed over 50 different women to find out why and how they began so she can help you get the women in your life involved in hunting. She has discovered fascinating reasons why women actually hunt. There is much more than the typical response of “I enjoy being outdoors.” She has interviewed women hunters from one end of the spectrum to the other. From “anti- hunters” to women who where “born hunters” she has talked to them all. Knowing why women hunt is half the battle to actually getting them to hunt.
Spence Petros
Spence Petros is one of North America's most versatile and well-respected anglers. Author, fishing educator, tournament angler, tackle designer and veteran of over 125 television shows, including three years on ESPN's national show "the Outdoor Writers". In 1989 Petros was inducted into the National Fresh Water fishing Hall of Fame, and is listed among the "Living Legends of American Sportfishing ", a book authored by Larry Colombo profiling 100 of the top people in the sportfishing industry.
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Ted Takasaki
A top competitor on the In-Fisherman Professional Walleye Trail (PWT), Ted won the prestigious PWT Classic Championship in 1998 and the 1995 PWT Top Gun Angler Award. In 2002, he smashed the all time, one day PWT tournament record with limit of 5 walleyes that weighed 53.2 pounds! Ted also won the coveted 1993 Mercury National Tournament held on Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin. He has been featured in many national outdoor magazines, has conducted hundreds of walleye seminars across the Midwest, and is considered one of America's leading walleye experts.
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